Inconsistant Clip Levels - Vegas6 vs FW410

MH_Stevens wrote on 8/7/2005, 12:35 PM
I have been taking the new FW410/AT3035 combo on a test run voice-over recording. I noticed there is an inconsistancy between the cliping level indicator as per the Vegas6 meter and the clip light on the FW410. The Vegas clipping indicator fires at a lower level than the FW410 does. It's not a major differnece in gain setting (about one hour of the clock on the gain knob) but I mention it out of interest and to solicit comments.

Comments

farss wrote on 8/7/2005, 2:12 PM
Starting with something like voice through a microphone is not an accurate way to judge calibration of two instruments.. A more accurate approach would be to feed tone through the systems or as you're looking at the performance of a peak detector, tone burst would be better still.
The clip indicators in Vegas though I think trigger if there's more than two consequetive samples at odBFS, maybe the 410 is a little more tolerant. Either way one should be making certain neither of them are going off. Best way to see clipping is looking at the waveform.
Bob.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/7/2005, 5:17 PM
The clip indicator on the FW410 is indicating just that; whether the signal coming into the FW410 is clipping. Then it goes through the FW410 mixer giving you an opportunity to attenuate it, before it goes out to Vegas. The clip indicator in Vegas is telling you if the signal coming into Vegas is clipping. If the FW410 is not clipping and Vegas is, then you need to reduce the mixer output from the FW410 to Vegas. As Bob said, you should be using test tones for setting levels.

~jr