[Rwp] problems with reaper peak watcher, or my soundcard?

[Chris Belle]

Also if you don't set something for how long the peaks are held, they 
wil ldrop down quickly
and you might think you are getting no levels when you actually are.
I like to set about 2 seconds, enough for changes but enough for me to 
check and see where I was.
It's a moving target.


On 5/15/2016 2:56 AM, James Teh wrote:
> Are you watching a track which is armed and set up for your mic input? Are you actually making sound into your microphone? Remember, peaks aren't overall volume. They indicate the maximum level of sound. Also, you want to be quite a bit less than 0 dB if you want to avoid clipping.
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>> On 15 May 2016, at 5:13 PM, germano carella <germano.carella at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi to all,
>>
>> I was trying to use reaper peak watcher to control level of microphone.
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>> Now I pres alt+shift+p to set up my peak watcher to notify me when level is at 0 db.
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>> So, with my focusrite 18i8, i set gain to maximum level possible.
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>> With alt+f9 and alt+f10, I hear -38.7 db.
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>> But volume is maximum!
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>> By pressing j and k, I hear -55.3. So I believe there is a problem, maybe with my soundcard? Unfortunately scarlet mix control is not accessible, so I can't see input levels etc.
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>> Some suggestions?
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>> Thanks!
>>
>> Germano
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