Audio disconnecting on clip in OBS from 4i4

[gloombrr]

I've got 2 mics and a guitar running through a Focusrite 4i4 and I'm not sure where the disconnect is happening, but it's the mic levels after going through a couple pedals that seem to be causing it. I'm using the Focusrite USB ASIO driver and there is probably some "protection" being triggered somewhere, so maybe this is the desired outcome anyway?

OBS just suddenly stops showing levels for these inputs only and the audio for them cuts out on each track they're in the mix. I have other mics recording so I could just duck any moments of clipping in the mix.

Just wondered if anyone knew anything offhand to point me in the right direction. I have no filters on the audio track.

I make an effort to keep hardware levels in the right range but sometimes I forget to optimize and checking everything before and after each song becomes very time consuming when I'm mostly just practicing and seeing if anything turns out.

Thanks for any information you can offer! I get in the habit of keeping my OBS levels up on the screen whenever I experience an issue and then it disappears a while and then I run into it again once I've stopped paying so much attention. :P

 

[gloombrr]

Can't figure out how to delete but I finished fixing my levels properly and everything is better for it, I suspect it was the Focusrite. I just added a gain filter in OBS to catch up some of the difference. Oddly, before I removed the gain from the one input chain, there was clipping showing live on the meters even though I couldn't hear any clipping in the mix. Maybe I'm just not listening hard enough.
Whatever, good enough for practice.
I assume the audio interface since when the clipping came from within OBS it was fine, but that's just a guess.