Re: [Audacity-devel] Recording level bug

[David B. <drb...@go...>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Gale Andrews<ga...@au...> wrote:
>> > Yes, but since they can't see the Audacity VU meters anyway, why don't
>> > they just use the Audacity slider to control the input, then relisten?
>>
>> The problem is having the level set in two places. For example, if the
>> level in the mic's properties dialog is set too high so that clipping
>> occurs, then reducing the level in the audacity window scales the
>> waveform down, but doesn't remove the clipping. To stop the clipping
>> you have to change the level in the mic's properties dialog.
>
> You're saying then that by default the system level (on your sound card)
> is set so high that even if you reduced the Audacity input slider to 0.1,
> the recording would still clip?

The problem is that if clipping occurs, then all that audacity input
slider does is scale down the clipped waveform. So if the audacity
input slider was set to 0.1 then the max amplitude would to 0.1 of
full scale but would be clipped at that level.

David.