If Soundforge is going into the red then it's clipping. You can adjust the recording level on your PC as well - go into your Ozonic's mixer application and turn it down there until it doesn't clip. Also make sure you've gone into the Ozonic's line inputs and not the mic.
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Panama City, Panama
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Originally posted by andydavey
If Soundforge is going into the red then it's clipping. You can adjust the recording level on your PC as well - go into your Ozonic's mixer application and turn it down there until it doesn't clip. Also make sure you've gone into the Ozonic's line inputs and not the mic.
Andy
I've turned down the volume on on the Ozonic'z Mixer apliccaton, and it doesn't affect the clipping at all.
The Ozonic Only have
Analog Inputs(Unbalanced Inputs) that's where my mixer is connected
and it also have an instrument input.
You definitely turned down the Ozonic's input and not output level? It's strange that you couldn't get it not to clip when you did that. All you can do then is run the master out of your mixer a bit lower really...
One really crap thing about a lot of soundcards (an other PC audio interfaces) is they don't have any headroom - i.e. they clip bang on 0dB, when most audio equipment (probably your mixer included) has at least 6dB of headroom.
I always record in peaking at -6db at the most then normalise up after I've recorded... yeah you lose a bit of dynamic range but it's better than clipping.
But as Andy says, turning down the input voltage should stop it from clipping if your mixer isn't hitting red - with a PCV-275 I think it's safe to say that 0dB on the VU meter will be pretty accurate.
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Mar-01-2007 15:15
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Columbia University, NYC
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Originally posted by Stu Cox
One really crap thing about a lot of soundcards (an other PC audio interfaces) is they don't have any headroom - i.e. they clip bang on 0dB, when most audio equipment (probably your mixer included) has at least 6dB of headroom.
The whole idea is to record without the master output of the mixer (Ex. REC Out). The Master is actually a Pre-Amplifier to feed xyz amount of dBs to an amplifier.
An amplifier's input signal is higher than a line input signal. So, the best way is to either don't record with the Master, or reduce the Master levels accordingly.
