Voiceover in new iMovie lacks major low frequency and general quality?

Anyone else observing that voiceover in the new iMovie on Mavericks sounds remarkably different?
Me: recording voiceover with the built-in mic on an early 2013 macbook pro - compared audio with previous old iMovie/mountain lion, quite a large difference. Audio previously sounded admirably rich and decent for a built in mic, but now sounds faint, tinny, missing serous low end. I've messed with the new equalizer features for voiceover - the 'Bass boost' setting certainly helped, but it overcompensates and sounds muddy in comparison to how the previous audio was.
Haven't tried using the mic in other applications to see whether the problem is local to iMovie - curious if anyone else has noticed this?
On the plus, the new interface suits me much better, and for some reason rendering movies seems to be taking about 5 minutes compared to previously 5 hours? Ok I'll take that.

I have the same problem. Just tried using iMovie 13 for the first time (have been using FCE). My microphone is a Blue Yeti, which gives superb results in FCE.
Does anybody know what's going on?

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When I connect the laptop to the amp, I notice a slice of low frequencies and A strangled sound.
When I connect my old computer or CD is no such problem.
No "Beats" equalizers do not eliminate the problem.
What should I do to get good sound?
Sorry for modest vocabulary and bad grammatik, I'm from Russia, and can not clearly explain the problem.
But I beleve, you uderstand me.

Hello Oleg_P.
You should try removing the driver and allowing the operating system to reinstall it. Try the following.
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Expand the "Sound, video, and game controllers" section.
Right click on your sound card and select "Uninstall."
Reboot the computer and allow Windows to complete the reinstallation.
Post the result.
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You certainly are not the only one with that problem... I called the support people and it took over two hours to figure out what was wrong... I ended up having to delete MacKeeper which I have used for years.... I guess it over writes a couple of files needed by the Share Function... They also had me delete iMovie and reload it... I am not a tech person so I would not be able to tell what libraries and the several files we deleted after rebooting and coming up in a safe mode. But the share function works normally now... I still have problems with some function buttons in Safari... I guess that will be another call...

Frequency and duty cycle measurement

Hi Friends,
Its been very helping from the day 1 i started psoting my questions to this forum...
Now again its time to seek ur help...
My req is something like i have a sound waveform (say a tone) saved as a .wav file.
Say suppose 1.wav.................
I need to evaluate this wave at a particular interval and should be able to calculate duty cycle, dB level, output frequency and peak to peak voltage similar to a CRO.
I already tried with the below VI but its showing for the entire .wav, so need to do some modifications which attains my req, but i am not sure where to kick off....
So anybody who have worked or developed similar VI in past ,please share your exp's
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Attachments:
Duty_Cycle.JPG ‏91 KB

Joe/Jeremey,
I am facing some new issue with the VI,
Frequency and Duty cycle are coming but the problem is something like the JPG attached.
Its not frequent and only coming for a particular part of the waveform
Is it waveform (.wav) dependent, if so let me know how to debug this.
Attached the VI (modified), snapshot of error and also wavefile (.wav)
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delete_b.zip ‏12 KB
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I just purchased a new (sealed) Lenovo S230u factory box with security tape on both ends unopened, with no additional tape, from a major online retailer that also have physical stores in selected States.
It is a refurnished machine, according to the major retailer website, it has 90 days warranty from Lenovo with Levono phone number etc. Having bought several 1000+ Thinkpad and 3000 desktop from IBM, with the *very good* price offered and manufacture warranty, I am willing for the first time to try out the Thinkpads after it is owned by a Chinese company Lenovo. I had been very skeptical whether the Chinese company Lenovo would provide the same level of support as IBM. And this is where the nightmare begins.
I called and checked with the online retailer and they had a few hundred machines but I bought one of the last one they have in stock since it went to SOLD OUT within hours. I confirmed with them they are factory refurnished machines and they had hundreds of them. With the low price and short warranty, I made sure I have the ability to purchase extended warranty and went to Levono online chat for warranty to confirm how much it would cost to buy extended warranty and that shipping for any needed service is free BOTH ways. My last machine was HP and I loved how they provided two way free shipping and excellent technical support service. HP helped me fix an unexpected motherboard issue, deemed manufacturer’s defect and replaced it for free. No way I am buying any laptop with worse off warranty for a cheap price. The agent confirmed that I will be able to buy extended warranty with 2-way free shipping but need to receive the machine and give them the serial no. for a quote.
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Having read online discussions, I am very cautious to buy refurnished machines sold on eBay, non-major retailers that may switch off parts and discredit the warranty. I still checked that machine came with security tape sealed on both ends, nothing was altered.
However, when I started using the machine, I realized that it said my warranty expired! I called Levono immediately and the first agent gave me the lenovo_pop email address to send in my warranty and told me they can update and extend it for a year - I thought WOW, great if it is one year. I had tech issues as I performed a series of windows, lenovo, microsoft updates randomly, and getting some registry error message and wanted tech support to guide me quickly to restore to factory condition but the request was denied because warranty expired! Furthermore, he said they do NOT honor any warranty of refurnished machine NOT sold by lenovo.com! WHAT??? That is NOT what they informed me from online support BEFORE i purchased the machine!! And if my warranty end date is AFTER the day I called, they could have easily helped me? The machine expired 1/14/2014 (a year from manufacturer’s date) and I bought it beginning of Feb 2014. Oh great, I guess the few hundred customers that bought the same machine a few weeks before me won’t have this problem as I bought the last few machines – no wonder the cheap price for a wonderful laptop.
This issue was stretched out for weeks! With my case no. CLOSED – reason: no customer contact, when I was waiting for the agent who promised to call me back AFTER I emailed to Lenovo my proof of purchase twice to different emails - yet no one called. An agent then told me new info saying that the major retailer should be responsible to contact Lenovo. Then another agent said they don't honor any third party refurnished machine, even major retailers!! Another case no. opened and a supervisor escalated to a different Lenovo team with screen captures of links to retailer product page, warranty info, as well as my conversation with the Lenovo rep, yet I still receive no resolution 10 days after. This is night and day experience compared to previous IBM or HP experience I had. All contradicting info and the customer penalized.
With the major retailer, I have escalated the issue twice to supervisors, yet the Lenovo closed the first case no. when Lenovo supposed to call me back and the retailer couldn't do much while I still didnt' hear back from the second supervisor but they extended my 14 days return policy to 30 days. Their name not mentioned yet, because unlike Levono, the low level support person called me daily to follow up while I have been chasing after Lenovo every few days and know it would be ignored if I don’t keep pushing it.
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wabibi,
Thanks for the additional details via private message. My apologies for the troubles you have had so far - let's look into the situation and see what can be done to help you get this resolved.
Best regards,
Mark
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// SpectrumAnalyzer.as
package {
import flash.display.*;
import flash.media.*;
import flash.net.*;
import flash.utils.ByteArray;
import flash.events.*;
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