[Ardour-Users] Odd clipping
John Emmas
johne53 at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Sep 27 00:29:37 PDT 2012
On 27 Sep 2012, at 07:57, Ben Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 05:01:50PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>>> http://twitpic.com/ax819i/full
>>>
>>> Is this just normal pre-amp or ADC clipping, or have I perhaps got an
>>> electrical problem with my signal chain somewhere (mic->mixer->interface)?
>>
The good waveform is noticeably more symmetric than the problematic one. My first guess would be that somebody's dropped that microphone at some point. Try a different mic and see if that solves the problem.
If it doesn't, there could be some source of asymmetry in the signal chain. Are you using a compressor on this channel? Or if you're using an analog desk, there could be some DC bias creeping in somewhere. If changing the mic doesn't help, switch it to a different channel on the mixer. This is the kind of issue that you can only resolve successfully through trial and error.
John
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