Vocals and large diaphragm condenser

[Jack Real]

Hi

I would like to know if it's possible to saturate a large diaphragm condenser with voice ? I'm using a Sure KSM27 to record my voice and I have a distorsion problem. I don't know if it comes from the microphone, the recording chain or my voice. The maximum sound pressure that a KSM27 can take is 133 to 138 dB SPL (which I think corresponds to 100 - 200 Pascal). Also, in the documentation, it is written to use the atteniation switch (-15 dB) for extremely high sound pressure like guitar amp cabinets but they don't mention vocal examples. Is it possible to apply more than 133 dB SPL of sound pressure with voice only ?

Thanks,

Jack Real.

 

[CoolCat]

distortion on vocal mic

Funny you mention that, I just noticed distortion randomly popping up
on my SP-B1 on tracks I did this weekend. so i thought?

Beings I made other setup's of the same song (comparison tests with a Joe Meek and internal sweet'ing)..it didn't always distort,

so partitioning out the one common suspect is the PRE-AMP/Channel strip
settings. Possibly overdriving my SIAB input?

Its so, so subtle of a distortion and need higher volumes to catch it.

On my Channel strip I lowered the OUTPUT going into the SIAB.