^^ So my question is..... was the source I used for my white noise, at 0db? It appears to be but I need to be sure.
Yes, the white noise file you created looks to me like it's at 0 dBFS. But it doesn't matter. More below...
Here's what I did...
Created that .wav file at about 1:30 and burned it to a CD. Put the CD in my DVD player. Used the RCA outs of the DVD player and put it into the SVU... hit play... calibrated levels to 0.
Now I assume that's all good IF my white noise file was at 0db....
Definitely not all good. What you've done above is calibrate your SVU-x to the output levels of your DVD player. You need to calibrate your SVU-x to the UA5
while it's recording. If you have a soundcard with digital input, try the steps I outlined above. If not...well, you need to have some way of monitoring the UA5's record levels while recording, -aside- from the SVU-x, so you then may calibrate the SVU-x meters to the UA5's record levels. Instead of a computer with a digital input soundcard, you could use a DAT recorder's meters to monitor the UA5 levels and calibrate the SVU-x.