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Andrew5E15
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January 23, 2021
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Totally Haywire ... &%#@!*&^

  • January 23, 2021
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Hopefully this is a quick and easy DUHHHH thing I'm missing.  I think Audition updated and now my default recording setting are all ridiculously hot.  I use a Rodecaster Pro to record and, without touching anything on the Rodecaster,  my new recordings are super hot.  I'm sure there is something I can adjust on Audition to correct this, but I can't seem to figure it out.  The only bandaid fix I've been able to come up with is to turn my levels so far down on the Rodecaster, I can't even hear myself in the headphones.  When mixing background music, podcast, and sound effects, I have no stable sounds level to use until I get this fixed.

 

Any help would be fantastic!

 

Thanks in advance!

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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January 23, 2021

Audition does not, and indeed cannot, control record levels; it only records what it's sent. So if something's changed then it's most likely to be the drive class you are using. What is it currently set to?

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    Andrew5E15Author
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    January 23, 2021

    Drive class ... ???  I'm not even sure what that is which is probably part of the problem.  I can perhaps give you a few more details Steve and maybe you can connect the dots.  Typically I record with my mic, music, and sound effect levels all equal.  When I want to quiet the music and/or effects, I simply move the slider down on the Rodecaster.  That's how I control volume.  But righ tnow, I have to damn near turn them all the way down to dead silent to record at a decent level.  Even when I press record on Audition, it sounds hot and the level is moving anywhere between -50 and -30dbs ... with no audible sound in the room.  It sounds like there's energy going into Audition (too much of it).  I also tried messing around with a multitrack to see if that made any difference at all.  It didn't.  I did notice however when I clicked on the "R" to record my mic track and the "I" to hear the mic track, it multipled the sound like an increasingly loud cascade.  I don't know what happened and I don't know enough about it to pinpoint what might be wrong.  The only think I can do is provide as many details as possible and hopefully something and somebody can help.  

     

    Any insight would be brilliant!

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    Andrew5E15Author
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    January 24, 2021

    Are you using USB to connect the Rodecaster to your computer? I'm assuming that this is a PC not a Mac. The reason that I'm asking is that if you are just using the output of it connected to a 3.5mm input that's reverted to being a mic input, those are exactly the symptoms you'd get.


    Something like this happened before.  I don't think it was quite as bad.  I just had to re-record all my sound effects, but I don't want to do that ... nor do I think I need to.  There has to be some way to get the audio levels back in synch.

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