I got something hooked up wrong i guess!

[tone_aot]

Oh i see. It does this before i open up any recording software. When i just listen to the input it sounds like that already. I'm about to check the hardware options and see if i have something wrong there.

 

[tone_aot]

For some reason a box was checked that said do not map thru this device. I unchecked that and i'm about to reboot.

 

[kojdogg]

Oh i see. It does this before i open up any recording software. When i just listen to the input it sounds like that already. I'm about to check the hardware options and see if i have something wrong there.

let me get this straight though (and again, please allow for the fact that i may be talking out my arse here), if it sounds okay when you play back a recorded vocal-- it's just a monitoring problem, then it's more likely what he said. this probably wouldn't be a big deal except that it's hard to spit out lyrics with conviction when you sound all tiny.
if the problem is that the recorded track sounds thin, then you might have phase cancellation going on, which would make me wonder about what i said the first time about the latency issue combined with what you pointed out about phase cancellation-- recording the same source twice (at the same time-- once through the mic preamp and into the sound card, and then delayed back through the soundcard through the tape ins), but with a slight delay.
if it sounds the same for a recorded track whether you record while listening to the outputs of the m-audio through your mixer or through your stereo (rca outs from the m-audio into your stereo w/ headphones) then there's something else going on.

 

[tone_aot]

I don't know what it is man. Imma just get the dmp3 still cause i know it will be a better pre. When i switch to 96k it sounds closer but still not there. I don't know maybe my ears are messed up today. Some days are like that. I'm not saying that it sounds bad, it's just that the pre audiophile signal has a little more oomph to it in the midrange and i don't have to get up on the mic as much.

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

For some reason a box was checked that said do not map thru this device. I unchecked that and i'm about to reboot.

Nooooooooooooooooooo.

(OK, that was a bit dramatic ).

You don't want to map anything other than your recording stuff through your recording card. That box should stay checked (and has nothing to do with your problem).

 

[kojdogg]

what happened man?