so, I used the headset on the iPhone yesterday.
W/ the Apogee Concert setting, w/ no input fader, it was grossly clipping throughout...
(red = clipping)
interestingly, the 96kHz/24bit CAF file, has some clarity to it still, but some points the distortion is beyond fix. I ran it through the audacity "clip fix" 2 x's. It still showed about as much clipping on the wave form.
It's definitely listenable, but sad, that it could have been better, if it allowed you to choose a static input level, below the peaks. I'm guessing that it has some sort of compression/limiter built in, because the file looks/sounds like a radio program, in that regards.
I always thought that Apogee was a high end digital company, but, I this they failed on this one...
Not sure if the mic's themselves were at clipping point (doubt it), but, there should be no clipping - that's amateurish, IMO.
Have you guys tried any of the binaural decoders?
anyway, here's a track, that I did the clip fix (x's 2) & normalized & did some other EQ, compression, etc. I'm getting pretty well, at using compression for EQ, rather than EQ. When doing EQ, I tend to favor parametric, over graphic, but, lately, I've been using frequency banded compression/limiter. Even so, I end up w/ more dynamic range than the original, in this case...
https://soundcloud.com/user-722922293/hallowed-be-live