Quick background on me:
Recording audio for 45 years. Video since 2004 (Vegas 5).

I know audio. Software /DAW (Akai DPS21) also Reaper.

I have lost patience with Vegas, even with brand new high end system the app will freeze every few seconds. OK Im not going to rant.

Due to me pretty much avoiding using it for anything more than I have to these days I have been importing multi track audio from xsplit. I then export out the 2 tracks i want, one mono voice over and one stereo 'game' mix.

Been working until today when the mic was upgraded to nt1 and due to RME routing it is a stereo file with mic audio left channel.

So duh I set to left only and i get central mono track vegas. Previews FINE there is NO distortion it is CLEAN as beep.

It is 45 min long. For 3 HOURS i have tried every desperate method i know (even splitting!!) to get the audio out so i can sidechain duck in a GOOD audio app, Reaper. NOT possible. Every single render after 30 mins volume jumps and massive distortion/unusable. I normally use wav 48k/16 bit mono but no matter what the output same distortion at 30 mins.

I split into 2. Distortion 2nd part. I rendered 10 secs from 2nd part. FINE. So there is nothing ghosted on timeline . The project is brand new import video deleted audio streams i dont want and thats it. Ive deleted all default fx on audio and also used wave hammer (which I do NOT want as want CLEAN) but am desperate to get this audio out of vegas.

WTH do I do? I dont want to buy another NLE just to extract audio from multi channel mp4. In future I will try to record audio separately from xsplit so i can toss vegas away until final video edit.

But I WANT this ONE single mic track recoded CLEAN out of vegas and into a simple mono wav.

I will PAY for an app with interface that can do this. Like vegas SHOULD.

Yes Ive reset the thing, no difference. Rebooted, lowered out[ut 10db STILL massive distortion. OK one sec im gonna lower the volume 20dB ....

of course STILL distorted..yes i disabled wave hammer so my -20db audio file has massive distortion?!

RG

can i upload audio file? dont know size limit 45 min wav is 260mb

EDIT: when I saw volume jumps at 30 mins more accurate would be it sounds like pre GAIN huge jump then volume reduction. As silence between voice is much louder then it comes down for distorted voice. Sounds like a badly setup compressor has boosted audio until it distorts then re-recorded the distorted audio.

OR it sounds like the mic cable is bust so it gives dirty signal boosted by compression. Input source signal is CLEAN....