I bought an XLR to USB cable (about £20) - plugged straight into the my xw8600 gives 48k 16bit straight into Avid via Windows Mixer - Win 7 gives pretty good control over the input level and you can monitor in Avid - I use it for guide VO through the Capture tool or through Audio Punch In. But with a quiet room it would be fine for proper VO with a bit of eq and compression applied in Avid.
If you want proper PPM monitoring you can use Virtual Audio Cable to capture the audio signs out of Avidl: http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm and then either the excellent PPM meters from Darkwood: http://www.darkwood.demon.co.uk/PC/meter.html many of which are free or PPMEmulator which costs a bit: http://products.zplane.de/index.php?page=ppmulator or even Pinguin: http://www.masterpinguin.de/index.html?neu/files/content/downloads.html which gives you a spectrum analyser as well but costs quite a bit more.
Nick
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Marcus <gen@...> wrote:
>
> > Anyone got any recommendations for simple audio recording software for use
> > in avid suites that don't have Avid I/O boxes. We just want to record Voice
> > overs.. The inbuilt windows sound recorder is just too basic.. We'd like to
> > be able to altert he gain and maybe see some metering so we can see what we
> > are recording etc.. We are in a windows world.
>
> I might be missing a point somewhere but you can change the avid audio
> input tool to 'windows mixer' and just go straight into Avid.
>
> Although I, personally, do like windows7 sound recorder as it will run
> in the background so you can do a vo to avid timeline if you're
> confident enough to read through your guide in one take.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus
>
Sunday, November 27, 2011
[Avid-L2] Re: Audio recording software for Avid
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