Unfortunately I have little knowledge regarding subliminal anything, but there are a few technical based wild guesses (possibly quite unuseful.) The lower level signal would have to be at least 10dB lower than the higher level signal. This is the loudest that non-special effects reverb is placed when you want it to integrate with the "dry" signal in the noggin. Unfortunately there are variables here too, like integration time. The more different (or delayed) the second signal is, the lower you have to go for the same integration threshold. But this all just a rough live music starting point. There is also a variable when the two signals are stereo or mono, and centered or not, so with a centered main signal, an off axis secondary signal (like panned to the side) is audible to a much, much lower level. Sometimes as low as 30dB lower than the main signal. Whether you even want "audible" is unfortunately beyond my understanding. There are a lot of variables here too, like the nature of the signals and temporal stuff, dynamics, and listening volume I imagine would play a role somehow. Like anything audio, once you start mixing instruments and vocals or anything, it becomes a handful, and the subliminal thing, I am sorry not to know much about the requirements. Hope you can find what you are looking for, and I apologize for not having knowledge in this area.

In some cases, recording mono causes this problem. If you are recording in what Audacity considers stereo, for instance on the left side, and still get clipping before 0dB than that is pretty interesting. The two other places I would look are first the audio hardware settings on your system (hopefully it,) and if there is nothing there, your interface or USB microphone hardware (hopefully not it.) Both of these are vague possibilities. If you hit the "Audio Setup" button at the top and switch the "Host" to something else, this might be it. There are no options on macs, but a couple like MME on Windows that could be related. If you are using a USB mic, see where the level control is compared to where the clipping occurs. If it is always at -6dB and you have the level turned down 6dB this could be a limitation about how the microphone preamp works in your interface or microphone. Speaking of preamp/interfaces, if you can possibly find someone with a different interface or USB microphone, this could be plugged in to make sure that is not where the problem is. If I can think of anything else I'll let you know. Hope we can figure it out!

@@edwardthesoundguy Wow, that`s got to be the most thorough reply I`ve ever received. Thank you so much. I`ll go through these systematically. Although I have set recording to mono, I will go through the audio settings, as you`ve suggested. Not sure how to switch the host to something else, but I`ll look at this. The distortion is pronounced on playback when I cough and shout etc, but no red lines direct me. I have a new Volt interface connected with new Mogami cables. I`m using a new sm7db. Only the PC runs through usb-C. All is XLR. thank you again for this great video. I`m going to check out some of your other ones today. Kind regards buddy.

@@thekarmafarmer608 Hey, let me know how it goes. Trying to think of anything else just in case. The Volt is a fine interface and should not behave unusually. It does use a driver, so this could have an effect. I believe it is class compliant, so you could use it without the driver, but then there could be some weird offset somehow when using it without a driver. Unlikely, but worth checking. The only other thing I can think of to try is to make sure the boost is turned off on the SM7dB, and see if that does anything. The signal might be so gigantic during shouting that it could overload some interfaces. You would think that the input volume could just be turned down to solve this, but in most interfaces there are two actual stages, one transistor sort of "stacked" on the other one, and the level control is often in between them. This helps with things like potentiometer noise, but then the first stage is always turned all the way up all the time regardless of the control. Then if the incoming signal is incredibly large, you see where this goes. It would be weird, but this could also be the issue.

@@edwardthesoundguy Hi again. Well, I have no problem in distorting the signal. The problem is in getting the red bars to show that. Clearly, your instructions are correct. I have spent some time checking my settings. I can`t figure what is wrong. Oh well! It`s not the biggest problem I have anyway. I appreciate your time and expertise. If it comes up suddenly what the problem is, I`ll let you know buddy. It may be useful if it comes up again. 👍

Glad to hear it!

I think this tool is not quite sophisticated for this task, but there are likely things out there that can do this. If you look at photo conversion software, there are often options to preserve the sub folder structure, and also selections to import everything from all sub folders. I am hoping there is a tool that works like this but can't think of one at the moment. I'll let you know if I see anything that can do this. Thanks for bringing this up. It would be a cool feature worth having.

An export folder will be automatically created in the folder where the import files are located. The setting shown in the video is no longer needed

Sorry I did not see this earlier. The two I can think of are Bertrom Denoiser and Supertone Clear (used to be called GOYO during testing.) There are plugins that work really well, and don't sound weird at decent levels of severity. Izotope RX de noise, part of RX 10, or now RX11 today works okay but some of the other tools in the RX kits are more notable. Hope you get some great recordings!

Appreciate it so much. Thank you!

Happy to help!

@@edwardthesoundguy you saved me converting, by hand, 5 x 131 wav files to oggs for my WW2 game - would have taken days!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6S1pZeXobqFetk

That is really great to hear!

Actually a pretty good question. The convention is that you apply any adjustments later. This has a good reason. If something doesn't work out, you are not stuck.

Many thanks! Let me know if there is anything I can improve.

Should become comfortable to use in no time. Glad this has been helpful.

Hey, better late than never!

@@edwardthesoundguy Is there a way to do this batch conversion without scrambling up all the metadata in the files? I have over 5,700 songs that I recently did the conversion on and most of them have the wrong metadata with the associated file. Most have the same metadata for numerous songs and some don't. It took hours (an overnight process) and they play in order of the filename, but the metadata is messed up. Any way to convert without screwing up the metadata? Thanks!

Hey, sorry I did not see this earlier. In case this is still an issue, I'll be able to access a yeti this weekend and will try to replicate the problem and see what we can find out. Hope you are getting some great recordings.

@@edwardthesoundguy Thanks, I’ll look forward to your feedback, as I’m still having same issue sadly 😞

If you are recording two microphones simultaneously, yes you can adjust them as separate tracks no problem. Once you record, there will be one "stereo" track with one mic on each side. This is just how Audacity does it. At 13:17 here I mention splitting the stereo track into two centered mono tracks. This is the point where you make two tracks you can fix up however you need. Once the stereo track is split, in this case you do not throw away the empty track since it has the other audio on it. From there you can process each one however you want by selecting the audio and applying any process you need. Hoping this makes sense. Let me know. Thanks for the kind words too. I am trying to find a moment to add a few more videos (more of a sound technician than a decent KZbinr) so it really helps to hear.

Awesome! Thank you!

Really interesting. Glad you got it going in the end. Sometimes, if you run the processes on their own, without automation, you can figure out which part is causing the problem and see if there is a way to set that step up to get by. There have also been some issues with a recent version of Audacity and this might be related. I haven't had a chance to look but will look into this as soon as I can get a minute. Thanks for bringing this up!