Noise and clipping on vocals in ableton

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I've tried a few different methods of extracting vocals and most have given great sounding results in a media player, good enough for my uses to chop into a remix. However when I import into ableton the waveform is very peaked even during quiet sections and constantly pops and clips the master unless it is way down in level. It also makes it impossible to "see" the vocals for editing even if I could use parts of the track.

Anyone else run into this? Am I just dumb and missing something?