🚀 go-pugleaf

I don't think it's Audition, although you can test this quite simply by making a recording with Windows Sound Recorder. This uses the same dll and api structure to record as Audition does; ie, the OS. If it all works okay with WSR, then it may well be something Audition is doing, but as I said, it doesn't sound like it at all on the face of it, and Audition isn't exactly noted for causing this sort of problem...

If it's level-related, it sounds far more like the hardware than anything, although it's also quite possible that a screwed driver could account for this - they can do weird things too. And at the moment, that's where I'd be looking if this turns out to be consistent - the sound device driver. Buffer problems tend to manifest themselves as clicks and pops as a rule, or whole sections missing, but not as level-related problems, so at least initially they don't seem to be implicated.