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Originally Posted by mrlizard
its possible you could be distorting the mic, what SPL's can the capsule handle, it'll be written in the manual. if you're recording into the computer with no compressor, the temptation is to keep the level high so it sounds ok. Keep the level as low as you can get away with, the highest peak should be around -2 or a little lower to be on the safe side.
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Cheers man.
I don't have a copy of the manual, it's not even my condenser, it's Fritz's (he'll be wanting it back now). I've had a scour of the web for an online manual, but no dice.
I dunno if it is the mic, having thought about it. I usually have to resort to turning down the pre's gain to a stupidly low level and then compress the hell out of it so that it's at least audible in Nuendo. I mean, it doesn't clip when the gain's turned down that low. It's obviously different depending on the sound source.
The problem is that when the preamp gain goes way down, it tends to take a little life out of the end product, no matter the quality of the source itself.