Hi,
you have picked a stereo input for your mic. Please try using a mono mic input and make sure that it’s properly routed to the correct physical input.
Does it look like the output is routed to the input?
That’s not the problem, and my microphone shows 2 channels.
How do I check if that’s the case?
I think it would be helpful if you posted a screenshot of your audio settings (F4) with some information about what audio interface you are using?
While you are at it:
Please also provide screenshots of your routings from both your stereo input channel and your mono audio channel (audio 01) for tracking the mic (click on the “e”).
Your STEREO input channel in the mixer shows that there’s a high noise floor - you’ll need to find out which signal is routed to that input.
Cubase doesn’t distort anything, it must be something that is routed to that particular stereo input or a plugin which resides somewhere in the chain.
USB mic? Highly not recommended.
So, you do not have a dedicated ASIO audio interface?
I don’t think that mic, one way or the other, is capable of stereo … is it?
You need a mono input bus, I believe.
A mono input bus can be used to record onto a stereo audio track.
I don’t know where your “distortion” is coming from.
What type of source is the input to the mic coming from?
Hi,
the more info the easier it gets to narrow it down…
As I suggested in post #2 and like others confirmed - please create and use a mono input.
However, you are probably listening to your direct monitoring signal of your mic which is not distorted. Your monitor dial on your mic is all the way up to MIC, right? In other words, it doesn’t reflect what’s happening in Cubase.
You need to turn your mix control dial all the way down from MIC to COM on your AT 2020. Afterwards, adjust the input level of your Mic on your newly created MONO input channel. Make sure to activate the monitor symbol on your Mono audiotrack in order to hear it. Now, you will hear what’s happening in Cubase and you can fix the input gain of your mic accordingly. You might experience a bit of delay because you don’t run a separate audiointerface, don’t worry about that for the time being.
If the ground noise persists try a different USB hub, too.
Let’s take it from there.
I don’t have a microphone with a knob.
So how do you have your mic connected to your PC - simply through the mic input via an adaptor? It seems the mic has XLR connectivity, so what sort of adaptor are you using?
I thought it was this one:
Seems we need more info …
Is that an XLR connection though? I think we need a close up image 
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That’s the latest AI mic with direct access to Suno. Very sophisticated and way ahead of its time.
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There was a early version of the AT2020USB without any controls on it. It has since been discontinued.
I think that’s the one I have. There are no controls on it at all.