Jonas Hammar
New member
Hey fellas!
I experience clipping/distorsion when the mic damper is set to -odB, i have the audio buddy set to juuuust above zero gain, just enough to get a signal through, and when singing normal singing i get clipping and distorsion. Worth mentioning is that the clipping is not due to high input-signal to the soundcard, input sits at around -15db with normal singing with these settings - i can clearly see how it clips the wave-form as if i had a compressor running in the signal chain
i can fix this by setting the mic to -20dB and rais the preamp-gain but at that point the noise-floor is soo damn high it sounds like i have a fan or something running in the room right next to the mic, it's virtually impossible to get a good balance between noise-levels and actual signal-levels without experiencing clipping.
The preamp is measuring 40.2 volts without load, and 26.4 with the mic plugged in, i dont know if this is the problem.
i did a test-recording and with the preamp left unchanged i have the exact same noise-floor on all three (-0dB -10dB -20dB) levels of damping. the signal/noise ratio is acceptable with the -0dB mode but even at the lowest gain-setting on the preamp it still clips.
I know the audiobuddy is a piece of crap, i just wanna know if im doing something wrong or if there's a way to beef up the power supplied to the preamp to rais the voltage under load or something..
I experience clipping/distorsion when the mic damper is set to -odB, i have the audio buddy set to juuuust above zero gain, just enough to get a signal through, and when singing normal singing i get clipping and distorsion. Worth mentioning is that the clipping is not due to high input-signal to the soundcard, input sits at around -15db with normal singing with these settings - i can clearly see how it clips the wave-form as if i had a compressor running in the signal chain
i can fix this by setting the mic to -20dB and rais the preamp-gain but at that point the noise-floor is soo damn high it sounds like i have a fan or something running in the room right next to the mic, it's virtually impossible to get a good balance between noise-levels and actual signal-levels without experiencing clipping.
The preamp is measuring 40.2 volts without load, and 26.4 with the mic plugged in, i dont know if this is the problem.
i did a test-recording and with the preamp left unchanged i have the exact same noise-floor on all three (-0dB -10dB -20dB) levels of damping. the signal/noise ratio is acceptable with the -0dB mode but even at the lowest gain-setting on the preamp it still clips.
I know the audiobuddy is a piece of crap, i just wanna know if im doing something wrong or if there's a way to beef up the power supplied to the preamp to rais the voltage under load or something..