I'm trying to get some good trumpet / flugelhorn recorded and I'm having serious quality issues as well as process issues.

OK, have Behringer Xenyx1222 USB mixer. My flugehorn sounded strangely paper thin when recorded, especially on low sections. I was using the MME default driver for Windows audio device (not Behringer). I then saw this error and changed to Behringer driver.

I THINK this solved the paper thin sound as it's much better but not great. MY mic is a Shure Beta 58 playing REAL close to get a fuller sound. Further away is worse, and I tried an MXL R144 but this sounds to metallic. Ugh.

I tried using ASIO driver after this with varied samplerates and get all random clicks and pops here and (Vista Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 2.6GHz - it's a few years old desktop) and the audio is shifted. I had the shifted audio with MME and use the Vista Offse thing set (setting in PT) to like 80ms. But this setting has not effect with ASIO...

Bought a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and it MAYBE seems a little better audiowise but same issue with pops/clicks/and shifted audio.

Back to MME.

The PG Reverb sounds really really really bad with trumpet so I'm using REVERBERATELE, a free convolution VST that sounds GREAT.

Thought I had it pretty licked until I choose: Merge Audio and VST..to stereo trackto mx down. Now listening to the output WAV file, the reverb vst doesn't seem to activate until some random time into the song. OMG.

Choosing the "Merge Audio... to WMA file" This WORKS. Why, I don't know. But now I'm stuck with a WMA file not mp3.

I've owned this s/w since 2002 and took like 8 years off, upgraded to 2012, then got serious this year with 2013 and I don't think this is gonna work!

Anyone have any better luck?

I've been seeing someone named Matt Finley with a Flugelhorn on here, maybe he has some wisdom?

Thanks to anyone in advance,

JCousins