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After some experimentations, it turns out the answer was that everything was a little bit too hot in my recording chain, ending with peaks and short parts reaching some slightly high levels, hence the distortion feeling I've got. Readjusting the gains while recording and mixing solved the...

Are we using 'distortion' differently? => very likely, from the comments I read here, the definition seems precise to experts. This is the second mention of my recording having that 'hard sound' (technically speaking keith.rogers said it was 'hot', but I suppose it's similar). I'll take that...

To answer some of your questions : I've been using this setup for about one year now. I bought the gear several years ago (microphone, cables and interfaces), but never used it more seriously until last year. So, yes, I'm far from being completely at ease with recording, hearing what I should...

Ok, so I should chase those ressonances instead of thinking my microphone is broken, right ?

Ok, I recorded this quickly and I couldn't properly check the levels (my bad), because the mic is in a different room than my interface (I did indeed just engage the padding button without leveling), I'll try to record a better clip. By the way, while reading some of the answers, something...

Here's a link to two audio recordings of the same phrase, one with padding, the other without : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ijc8pyH92m554A05oSd8yMr-ykdq2ATF?usp=sharing

Ok, I'll try to pick the non processed WAV file recorded by my DAW and put it somewhere (I'm using Cakewalk by bandlab, which stores audio in WAV files)

Guitar and bass are directly plugged into the interface (which offers XLR and Jack input on the same socket).

Hello, When I record audio through my microphone, the audio is distorted. I've checked the levels during recording: my interface usually is around -12db for louder parts. The final recorded audio file shows no clipping. If I record guitar or bass through my interface, the sound is clean. So...