But you clearly have it on, otherwise the Mic would not work at all. Yes Phantom / +48v power needs to be on for Condenser Mics. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could give me some tips on this But I don’t know if exporting and rendering a wave file over and over hurts sounds quality or not. You export it and then pull it back into your DAW and then raise levels appropriately and then re export it again with proper mastering. Then once the mic is complete and sounding good. So bacially lower or raise sounds for all tracks so the mix alone sounds good. Basically don’t worry about the mastering process until your done with your mixing process. I have also heard of another theory where you lower your instrumental or whatever instruments or sounds are too loud, so that the mix sounds good. I usually have to turn the gain up to hear myself. I’ll turn the volume all the way up on the monitoring and I can barley hear myself. I’m not sure if the Komplete Audio 6 has a preamp built into it(if anyone knows if that may be the problem.) Even when I have monitoring on so I can hear what the microphone is picking I have to turn on the (48V) button in order to get my microphone to work. I’ve heard of phantom power and I’m assuming since I have a condenser microphone you need that. Screaming into the microphone when I’m simply not. I can also turn the gain up on my NI Komplete Audio 6 interface, but there comes a point on the knob, I can’t turn it any higher because it picks up every background sound possible and is clipping and sounds like I’m It’s like the instrumental is way to loud. However I can solo my recorded audio and it sounds fine. If I turn up the volume in Ableton it sounds distorted and like it has too much gain. I usually end up duplicating the track in order to hear it(basically same recording stacked on top of each other). You can see the wavelengths but nothing like any imported sounds or track that are dragged and dropped in. Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 Interface For starters the equipment I am using is. I want to start by saying I’m not an Ableton expert, however I have dabbled enough to somewhat know my way around it.