input echo not loud enoug

I've noticed this a few times when recording an overdub. For some reason I cant get any real volume out of the input echo of the track I'm overdubbing. Is there any way to make this thing LOUDER? I've got the track fader all the way up and its just not as loud as the other instruments.

Raise the level on the "trim" 

What are you trying to record? If you're using a microphone or a guitar or bass, you need to go through a mixer or a preamp before going into the soundcard depending on what soundcard you're using. Most soundcards expect a line level signal. You should not be sending an amplified signal from a speaker or headphone output to the soundcard. That will cause distortion or could damage the soundcard.

You need to provide more info about your setup.

i run everything thru a Mackie mixer, and then direct outs, into a Delta 10/10LT soundcard. I probably had the trim on the Mackie channel turned down too low for what I'm doing. Part of my issue is, and I'm trying to figure out how to fix this, my computer is in one room, and the mixer with all my amps and drums and things, in another. So I have to adjust the trim and record, then go back to the computer to see what its doing. thats not the way to go, I know..

I just started the solo trip. Before I had everything set up to make live recordings of my band, so I had to have the mixer in where I was playing.

Calibrate your mixer with Pink Noise or White Noise or a 1KHz sine wave tone to result in an I/O of 0dB. You can't physically adjust the levels of the 1010LT so it's dependent on the level you're sending to it. You've got to get it right at the Mackie in order to get it right from the 1010LT into SONAR.

Keep in mind, if you're recording at 24-bit resolution you don't have to worry about recording "hot".

"unless you're trying to record with FX in the FX bin of the track you're recording then you don't need the input echo button on - monitor from the mixer! "

um, i'll try this tonight... i've got two powered yamaha nearfield monitors hooked up directly to the Delta soundcard. If theres no FX in the bin for the track I'm recording, I should be able to hear it in real time, while i'm recording, along with everything else thats playing?

heh. well, thats just gonna have to go down a little farther on the list of "10 trillion things I have to learn about sonar and home recording". I can click the input echo button and hear the way it is now... i'll have to use that, for now