No Harmonic Content in Navy

[basaristudios]

Am i doing something wrong or? It is a 1KHZ Sine Wave.


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[mathias]

it is lower in level (extend the level axis in span to -140 db) and especially low, if you have input and output amps switched on together (a decision of acustica development).

for more harmonic distortion with in and out-amps together, put a second instance of navy behind the first in the chain, and activate only the outputamp in it.

[basaristudios]

Hmmm...i will try that but if you look here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrajhxFvQ2w
its also somewhere between 1-3KHZ.

[mathias]

you speak about freq, i spoke about levels.
the analyzer in the video shows much lower levels than your one ( Span) in the picture. also the inputtrim is set near 0db in the video, you have it at -24 db.

[mathias]

by the way, i don't like your imagehoster, it keeps nagging with app-downloads

you can upload images directly here in the forum.
.png files work for me.

[DeNto]

[quote="[email protected]"]Am i doing something wrong or? It is a 1KHZ Sine Wave.


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check out your input scale it's at -30 dB?! What Kind of harmonic content do you expect at -30 dB?
Turn up your intup trim!!

[basaristudios]

I think the problem is actually in my Analyzer...because no
matter what i can not get what he gets, i just get the very
low Harmonics but nothing in the third and fourth.
The discrepancies you saw in the picture were due to the fact
i took the snapshot afterwards, i know i have to drive it to
0 or over to get some content from it.

[mathias]

did you try with only input pre?

did you change viewable levelrange in the analyzer (SPAN). it is highly customizable.

edit: in the upper right corner of the analyzer window, where it says "mode", press "edit" and tune the analyzer-view to show lower levels.

[basaristudios]

Now i finally did see...i was hiting Navy with -18dbvu Sine Wave
and there was no Harmonics. When i hit it at 0dbvu not fs then i
can see the The exact Harmonics...but...does this mean Navy has
to be hit hard to get Harmonics? 0dbvu would destroy everything, lol.

[mathias]

not hard, but enough to get as much harmonics going, as your ears consider useful for the sound you want to achieve.

[giancarlo]

In your picture you have -24, in such case it should be rather clean. It means you are hitting the hardware at -6 even when your digital audio is 0dBFs.
I would expect a very minimal distortion

[basaristudios]

Thanks GC.

[Mannymac]

@basarstudios

If you want to make sure you hit Acqua plugins at a good level I recommend this tool

http://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-vu-meter/

If you switch auto gain on the audio will automatically be set to -18 dbfs RMS which is a perfect level for dynamic distortion. Then you can dial the input knobs on your acqua plugin to set the harmonic distortion as you like

Don't use this with Drums!! Drums have such fast peaks that an RMS meter can't catch them and you will overload your tracks with this. But it is amazing for bass, vocals, guiatrs, synths etc!

[RE301]

Interesting looking plugin / tool - thanks for the link!

[basaristudios]

Thanks Manny, i actually own few high end Meter plugins.
I never checked the Hornet VuMeters. For drums i use other
type of meters though, VU meter wont do nothing to drums.