[Leon Burgher]

Hi Don,
To get to the nub of your problem really depends entirely on two things:
1. How good your audio monitoring is.
2. Do you trust those things attached to your head. No, not Bluetooth,your ears!

As you may know, with digital audio, there is NO such thing as ‘headroom’
in the normal sense. Typically, analogue systems incorporated an ever-increasing
limiter to deal with ‘hot’ audio levels. You’d sacrifice a bit of clarity but still have
something you could use. In digital, once you hit the clipper, that’s it. Distortion and
all kinds of nasties. I don’t know how accurate the audio waveform readers in Vegas are
but you should expand a ‘suspect’ one as much as possible and check for flat spots in
the place you’d expect to see clean peaks (say, on the letters ‘T’ and ‘P’), AND listen VERY
carefully with good headphones or studio monitoring. If it sounds harsh, then you’ve got
a problem.
There may also be an issue with importing the VO talent’s audio files. If he’s supplied them
as Audio CD files, they’ll be 44.1 Khz and peaking around 0dB. They really should be 48 Khz
and peaking around -12 dB. If they’re not, get him to ‘under-record’ the levels a bit. You can
always boost to get more level but can’t extract information that’s not there.
Regards,

OzBurg