Re: Microphone Muffled?
Based on your "detailed description" I can confidently say you are doign something wrong. But have no clue what that is.
The expected info here would include:
Exact model microphone
You using an external preamp?
You are going into the XLR mic inputs on the 003, straight through XLR to XLR cables, nothing in that path?
What is the mic preamp gain turned up to on the 003?
What is the input level you are tracking at (say average and peak dBFS, using classig meters make sure you are in pre-fader meter mode) - I'm looking for clipping or just too hot an input.
Got phantom power enabled (if the mic needs that?)
What are you recording? Vocals? Acoustic guitar? etc.
How are you recording? Distance from mouth? Guitar? Singing into the mic side/front etc.
If a large condenser or ribbon mic is the sound coming into the correct side of the mic?
Any switches on the mic, if so what are they set to?
Are you using low latency monitoring?
- If so that will disable plugins on what you are monitoring... but you'll hear them when playing back. Lots of discussions on DUC and in the Reference Guide explaining low latency monitoring. That is very likely to be part of this if you hear differences while monitoring vs. when playing back. Are you comparing tracking monitoring and playback, when listening on the same headphones? ... you need to exclude if the headphones or monitors or any headphone preamp/mixer or monitor controller are possible causes here.
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