Input monitoring is quiet - SOLVED...

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2012/04/21 00:48:36 (permalink)

Input monitoring is quiet - SOLVED...

I don't know what's going on, but suddenly all my tracks with input monitoring enabled are really quiet. I have a pretty solid signal coming in on the meters (including my soundcard meters) but it's really quiet on input monitoring. I have to boost the track over 18dB to hear it. Nothing else is exceptionally loud. But, lets say I record some bass, set my gains to +18dB so it's audible when I'm recording, when I press stop and play, the recorded signal is now SUPER loud - as you would expect, boosting a track 18dB. When I used to play with monitoring, it would be the same volume when I record to when I play back. Why is there now this huge change? Is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing? I'm sure it must be something obvious...


Edit: Ahh, I had the 'input gain' on my master buss set really low... Yup, it was something pretty obvious! Now I know what that does.. Wish I knew about that one when I was tracking my drums...


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    Re:Input monitoring is quiet - SOLVED... 2012/04/21 01:05:38 (permalink)
    Done that many times which is why an external master monitor control works so well, you can leave the computer master volume at max.

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