vocals sound distorted on record but play back fine

[dougbiggs]

Vocals monitor distorted while recording (esp peaks) but meter well under clipping. Same recording sounds great in playback...

(Imac 3ghz, sys 10.6, 002 -or mbox2pro-no difference, PTle 8.04, OWC firewire drive)

any thoughts?

doug

[Ben Jenssen]

First thought: If it sounds good, it is good.

Second thought: Something is wrong. Either with the way the way you are diagnosing the problem (a badly calibrated meter), or... I don't know.

Edit: wait, you hear distortion when recording but not when playing back? If so, you have a monitoring problem. Is the source doubling up when you are in record?

[dougbiggs]

Nope, can't double up with my 002 config ... normal 'low latency' mode. Never had this with 7.4 and have only been using 8.04 for a short while, noticed this in the last few days. Up-to-date digi and waves plugs + celemony

[albee1952]

Trashing prefs is always worth a try for ANY odd behavior

[Rob0214]

Originally Posted by dougbiggs

Nope, can't double up with my 002 config ... normal 'low latency' mode. Never had this with 7.4 and have only been using 8.04 for a short while, noticed this in the last few days. Up-to-date digi and waves plugs + celemony

Your plugs are disabled in low latency mode. Are you sure they aren't dropping the gain on playback? Are you using pre-fader metering?

Also, you might want to check under preferences: Link Record and Play faders.