The Official Dirac Live Thread: Start w/1,2,3 🙋‍♂️

[klinemj]

Thanks geebo and ttocs!

I've got the older one, so I should be fine.

Mark

[merlinwerks]

For me the version did make a difference. The last time I spent any significant time with Dirac (last February or March) with a USBC Umik-1 I was using Dirac v3.0.x. and had no issues. With mic gain set to 100% i.e. no gain added with the mic slider, my noise floor registered around 40db and my test levels were certainly reasonable. I updated to 3.11 and lost mic gain, ambient didn't even register, where previously it did. I tried restoring to my previous version via Windows Restore but Dirac would crash on startup so I installed 3.10 and everything worked as it did previously, levels were as expected with no added gain via the mic slider.

[ttocs]

Nov 25, 2024 8:00:51 GMT -5 merlinwerks said:

For me the version did make a difference. The last time I spent any significant time with Dirac (last February or March) with a USBC Umik-1 I was using Dirac v3.0.x. and had no issues. With mic gain set to 100% i.e. no gain added with the mic slider, my noise floor registered around 40db and my test levels were certainly reasonable. I updated to 3.11 and lost mic gain, ambient didn't even register, where previously it did. I tried restoring to my previous version via Windows Restore but Dirac would crash on startup so I installed 3.10 and everything worked as it did previously, levels were as expected with no added gain via the mic slider.

This is great info!! Thanks!

I got my UMIK-2 when I had been running Dirac v3.3.3. This was my third mic at the time, but my first with USBC. It wasn't until early this year that I tried to track how far back this problem was but only went back to v3.3.3 again, didn't go any farther back.

So I'm going to try the version you mention.

[merlinwerks]

To be clear my USBC Umik-1 worked as expected with 3.10