The ramblings of g1powermac

I was playing around with SoundTrack Pro (part of Apple Final Cut Suite) to record voice overs for commercials.  I use a M-Audio MobilePre USB preamp and two nice condensor mics for the recording.  The MobilePre also has headphone and stereo line jacks so you can listen to the audio as you record it.  So I setup SoundTrack to use the MobilePre as the recording and monitor device, and I pumped the audio through the MobilePre’s outputs.  This allows you to listen to your own voice and hear the background music at the same time without the mics picking up the music.  However, when I set this up, the voice track coming through the headphones was horrible, like it was peaking very badly.  I triple checked all the settings to make sure the audio wasn’t peaking and even made sure the headphones weren’t to blame by sending the finished audio track back through the headphones, which came out fine.  So I decided to try out a different software package to see if that helped.  And sure enough, Audacity, the open source sound editor, worked considerably better than SoundTrack Pro but still not 100% better.  I truly wonder what is causing this issue…

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