For two track, and especially if you are comfortable with it already, just use SF. If you are mixing more than two tracks or mixing in video, then Vegas all the way. That said, I always use Vegas because I like to work in a non-destructive way, but let's not go there right now. One thing at a time. For the sounds of it, you might to make sure whether you truely clipped the levels or your mics were brickwalling. They sometimes sound the same, but are in fact two very different problems. Open the file in SF, then look and possible "zoom" into the wavform (I think CRTL-SHIFT up and down arrows will zoom the vertical DB portion and just up/down arrow on their own to zoom in horizontally on the timeline). If you were clipping, the waveform would go all the way to the top and bottom and flatten out on the top and bottom (the flattening is the part that visually shows you that sound data is actually "missing" because it clipped and caused the waveform to flatten where in real life it would not have been flat). If you're mics were brick-walling, then you'd see a similar flattening of the waveforms, but the waveforms would not extent all the way to the top or bottom (they would NOT extend to 0 db like clipping would). If you clipped, then next time, don't run as hot, and as far as the meters, the thing you have to watch out for are the LOUDEST parts, so it's a little more complicated than "in the middle" or "to the right more." If the music gets real quite at times, then gets real loud, the meters will be all over the place and a rule of thumb like to the right won't necessarily work, you have to plan for the LOUDEST sound. On the other hand, if your mics bricked, then lowering the gain won't help next time. You need mics that can either handle louder SPLs or you need to get more power to the mics you have or both. Are you running with a battery box between the mics and the DAT?
Topic: Soundforge 7.0 & distorted recording (Read 2493 times)