Rode NT1 is suddenly sounding muffled
Hi there! I’m a newer voice actor and I’m really struggling right now. My set up is. Rode NT1 mic with a Scarlet 4th gen interface plugged into my windows 11 laptop running Adobe Audition. I took a while off of recording because of life stuff but when I set everything back up after a move to start auditioning again, my mic sounds muffled. I’m kind of tearing my hair out right now trying to figure out what’s wrong. Things I’ve tried:
-Updating the chord connecting the interface to my laptop
-Ensured I’m speaking into the correct side (lol)
-Looked for maybe AI messing with it and automatically editing it. I looked all through my laptop and adobe but when I click on my interface in audio hardware, I don’t see the option to turn this off so maybe it’s somewhere else?
- Changed the recording to mono instead of stereo but that didn’t make a difference
-Messed with the gain in every way I can think of
-Moved the mic from input 1 to 2 to see if that made a difference
-Updated my laptop
-checked for a driver update
-Uninstalled Adobe Audition and reinstalled it
-cried
-asked it politely to stop being a meanie
If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them. Here’s a link to an audition I recorded a couple days ago so you can hear what I’m talking about. The only processing I’ve done to it is normalizing it to -3 but it sounds muffled before the editing. And I realize the slate is different than the rest, that’s because I was backed too far away and I was too lazy to redo the slate 😂 thank you so much!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GeaUp2nic97KOsoetH6ik7MI\_lhIXCHy/view?usp=drivesdk