USB Mic Problems

I am recording with my USB mic it's a Blue Microphone Spark and at first it was recording fine now... It isn't so much I turned down the mic volume to 2 and even 1 and it still is recording hot and sounds distorted at points. How do I fix this problem and get the best out of my microphone?

Vacuoso wrote:
I turned the windows control for the mic down but it appears overridden by Audition. (Is this correct?)
There has to be a master control for the USB mic input levels, right? I can't find it for the life of me... I suspect that I am going to feel plenty dumb when someone tells me how to do it--but HELP, anyway! =)
Audition doesn't control any gains or levels in external devices at all - period. No overrides, nothing.
There are two ways in general that USB devices work in this situation - they either have a driver with its own control applet or they hand control to the Windows mixer. I think your Stanton device uses the Windows mixer, and it's extremely unlikely to use the Mic input - far more likely to use the Line input, I would have thought - it won't be a mic level signal coming from it, after all.
First thing to do is to look at the setup as it is in your PC, and make sure that it appears as it is on p.8 of the manual. If you can't find those settings on your machine, chances are that there's driver software on the CD that came with it, and you'll have to install that Cakewalk stuff to make it work (you don't have to use it though - it's just the driver you want). When you've got the correct source set up, it should appear in the Windows mixer but as I said, it's probably the line input level that controls it.
It's also quite possible that the standard Windows USB PID driver will work, and that the turntable will just appear correctly - no driver required - so check that first before doing anything else. Whatever you end up doing though, it's got to appear in the control panel like it does on p.8.

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