Emmett Andrews
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When you use the FireWire option, does it sound better to you? If it sounds better, go that route! Ideally, you would send the mic through a good preamp and into a professional soundcard. Since you’re using an onboard card, the quality will not be great and you may very well be better off using the FireWire route.
The only other thing I thought of…Which input are you using on your soundcard? There should be a “line in” and “mic in” option. Whichever one you’ve tried, give the other one a shot.
Emmett
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How are you powering the mic?
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Many controllers will control transport, gain/volume, automation, pan, mute and solo. Anything that uses MAckie Control emulation is fine. This includes the BCF2000, but not the BCR2000. Audition’s architecture will not support plug-in control.
Emmett
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That doesn’t make any sense at all. For something to meet that criteria, the audio would have to be so compressed it only had a dynamic range of 3dB, in which case, you wouldn’t be able to understand the words. So my suggestion is to simply normalize to -3dB because whoever gave you those instructions has no concept of audio or at the very least, gives very poor instructions.
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In your settings, uncheck the “release ASIO driver in background” button. I’m assuming you’re using 2.0? 1.5 and earlier do not have this option and 3.0 should default to unchecked.
Emmett
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This has nothing to do with the program. It is a setting in the soundcard. It sounds like you’re probably using a consumer-grade card of some sort, in which case I can’t provide much help. You’ll just have to open your soundcard settings or Windows mixer and start messing around!
Emmett
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You can try clip restoration…It only works if the clipping occured digitally. The results are iffy at best. I’ve heard it do a nice job once, but usually, you’re just out of luck.
Emmett
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I’m glad to hear that! It’s a tool that I knew existed, but was never sure why. I mean, I’ve known what its funtion is, but I never thought of a practical use for it. So I’m glad to hear that there are situations where it becomes useful and I’m glad it works well!
Emmett
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As I recall, the typical peak for film should be at -9db. And that’s exactly where it is. So you should be fine. Film is much MUCH more dynamic than modern music, which means dialogue will appear very, very low. Below is a short sample of a rip from a THX mastered major motion picture. As you can see, the levels seem very low.
Emmett
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This is precicesly what the envelope follower is for…In the multitrack screen, you’ll find it under “effects”. It’s not an easy tool to explain, so read the help file for operations help.
Emmett