Re: PC recording levels not translating

"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1136033477.283701.33110
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

>
> mjpatey wrote:
>
>> I've spent some time on the phone with Focusrite's USA tech support
>> (who, btw, are WONDERFUL), and they have never experienced what I'm
>> describing in the apps they use (though no word from anyone using the 2
>> apps I'm having trouble with!)...
>
> Focusrite doesn't have experience with their products used with Sound
> Forge and Audition? Oh, well, they're an Avid company now, and I guess
> they only bother to test their hardware with ProTools.
>
> I really don't have anything else to say about this other than to quit
> worrying about it and start making music.
>
>

I've been trying to find out where I'd heard this problem before but can't
seem to find the answer (or rather the correct search string) in google
groups. It came up on rec.audio.pro about a year ago & I think it was in
relation to a MOTU interface, maybe an 896.

I seem to remember the problem was put down to the wdm drivers being in
stereo pairs and applying some kind of pan law to the inputs when recording
to a mono file. Thus when you hit full scale on the converters, the
recording software doesn't recieve full scale, rather -6db or there abouts.
The ASIO drivers don't exhibit this problem.

Maybe try recording a stereo file in wavelab/audition and see what happens
then.
.

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