Windows 7
Audacity 2.0.2
I’m trying to record my girlfriend singing.
We are using an AudioTechnica 2020 studio mic into a Soundcraft efx8 mixer.
She’s a powerful singer and is backed off from the mic by about 50cm.
The mixer gain level is about 50%, the channel level -10 and the final mix level also -10.
We are taking the output from the monitors (on this mixer the final mix require XLR connections and we only have a cable from jack to mini-jack). The Monitor level is 25%
These settings give a strong recording waveform in audacity which doesn’t clip through the entire song.
However … she’s singing Don’t Rain On My Parade and the last note is a sustained loud one (about 13 seconds) which she sings very ‘pure’ i.e. no vibrato and at a constant volume throughout. It records fine without clipping for the first few seconds then dips by about -2 dB for a couple of seconds then disappears to zero.
The rest of the recording sounds great but of course it’s useless without the end!
Any help much appreciated.
