Help with Audio Problem?

[danhughes]

Please listen to the file below (it's just 10 seconds) and let me know your thoughts.

The first three seconds are the end of the canned intro. The last six seconds are the beginning of a particular episode. The sound is bad, and I don't know why.

I'm using an MXL V57M microphone with pop filter and foam mic cover in a foam sound box, a Behringer 1204FX mixer, and an inexpensive HP desktop computer with the stock sound card. I record with Adobe Audition 1.5, and the levels looked good when I recorded.

The mixer uses a USB port, not the computer audio input jack, and the first part was recorded with the exact same setup but a different microphone.

Any thoughts on what's going on here?

Thanks!

---Dan

 

[danhughes]

Solved!

I solved my problem.

I unplugged and cleaned all the connectors, then re-recorded the program. It sounded fine.

Then I ran it through Levelator, and guess what - the fuzziness was back!

So the problem was with Levelator, not my equipment.

Guess I won't use Levelator any more.

ARG!

---Dan, http://danhughes.net