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Thanks for your detailed response. Now I have to read it.

Koz

The Tascam USB and power lights should be on. The Tascam has two different ways to tell if it's working right. The lights on the front and the headphone socket. Screen Shot 2020-11-19 at 8.09.02 AM.png The microphone doesn't take +48 volts. Leave the switch on the front in MIC/LINE. Never blow into ...

Try listening to that track. What does it sound like?

You also didn't address this question.

When user number 4 plays the file, it's an hour long, but when you play it it's an hour and fifteen?

You need to start getting detailed observations if we're ever going to solve this.

Koz

I haven't found any technical problems so far. This setup seems to be recording your voice as it is. We like to hear a recording with no effects, filters, or corrections to judge if the plain, ordinary recording technique is OK. We can't tell anything if there is a list of different changes applied....

There is one setting that can cause something like this. Sound Activated Recording. Every time the performer takes a breath or pauses, the recording stops. When you compare sound files that performer will get to the end of the show way before everybody else. All their gasps and pauses are missing fr...

Clearly the problem is with user #4 I think that's the first problem right there. Immediately forming a pile of assumptions is not a good idea. When user number 4 plays the file, it's an hour long, but when you play it it's an hour and fifteen? or 45 minutes? What happens when you try to brute-forc...

You have a thing for names that nobody can spell. Katie made it through technical testing perfectly. So did Eiline.

Koz

Maybe it's my voice?! No. This is the analysis in the two seconds before you start speaking. It's "Room Tone" or everything else with you not speaking. This is the one that home readers miss. The traffic, refrigerator, and computer fan noises do have to be at least a thousand times quiete...

As expected, I mastered the clip and it sailed straight through technical acceptance. Screen Shot 2020-11-18 at 6.22.51 PM.png Peaks quieter than -3dB, Noise quieter than -65dB (the spec is -60dB, but you have to be qieter than that for actual work), and RMS (Loudness) between -18dB and -23dB. Piece...

The NT1-A is a side-fire microphone. You announce into the side grill just up from the gold dot (assuming it's right-side up). Is that what you're doing? You can totally run it upside down. The microphone doesn't care.



Koz