First of all, Chris, you probably shouldn't expect that people have the time to listen to an mp3 where you start going into your preference settings. That's just not reasonable for most people. Secondly, if you're close to clipping with your preamps all the way down, then there's another issue here that you need to address and I'm not sure what that is but I can assure you that no microphone's own output signal is hot enough to hit line level without a preamp of some sort. You clearly don't have the answer because you're searching for it and it would take some deeper examination of what's going on to figure out your issue. I assure you that it has absolutely zero to do with Pro Tools itself. It's software and has no bearing on your recording volume. The problem is that you're dealing with some stuff that you don't understand and you'll need to get a handle on it in order to solve the problem. The quagmire is that it takes a lot of time to understand the various aspects of the myriad of equipment and that's why there are schools that teach audio engineering and production. Of course, it's possible to learn this on your own but it can take quite a long time.
Bottom line is, if you have a microphone going into an interface and nothing else in between, there's no possible way your levels can be at -4 dB FS. I guarantee that there's another piece of gear that's causing you to see levels that hot. I suggest you eliminate the variables and figure the problem out that way. slau On Jul 9, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, believe it or not, it didn't. and that's the thing anyway, I couldn't > turn my preamp down on the interface. It already was! all the way down. That > was kind of the whole point of this thread. Sorry if I'm confusing you even > more. That's why I encouraged everyone to listen to that file I put on > Dropbox. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slau Halatyn" <slauhala...@gmail.com> > To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:01 PM > Subject: Re: Well, I was wrong. > > > I don't know what your issue is but just turning down your preamp will likely > solve any problem. > > Slau > > On Jul 9, 2014, at 9:02 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> OK, but, why on earth is it showing that I'm peaking around -4 to -2DB? Is >> that also yet another Voiceover hiccup? God I hope so! Although, that's >> gonna make mixing extremely! difficult. I don't think I even can install >> 10.0 on Mavericks, can I? I have a DMG of it, but last I heard, it wouldn't >> work. >> >> Chris. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slau Halatyn" <slauhala...@gmail.com> >> To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 8:25 PM >> Subject: Re: Well, I was wrong. >> >> >>> Chris, >>> >>> The meters in Pro Tools 11 will always read -14 dB no matter what. It's >>> just an issue that needs to be fixed. >>> >>> Slau >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland >>> <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Well, tech support told me that I was peeking much lower on my meter, but >>>> when I just looked myself with Voiceover, that isn't the case. So, I'm >>>> back at square 1. I have no idea what is going on! >>>> >>>> Chris. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
