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Thanks so much for your help man, its much appreciated. So I am now in business. I replaced the FastTrack with a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. It has right and left inputs each with individual gain controls, and both are switchable from line level to instrument level. Now that I have both channels of my m...

I figured it out, the 1/4" phone jack, line in/guitar is in the right channel. The XLR input for the mic is the left channel. I dont know why the mic input was picking up the peaks of the right channel. The FastTrack was pretty much the weak link in my system so I bought a better interface with...

I think i have another one. it just seems weird that the signal is there just really weak.

Thank you,

I think its a problem with my interface. Im going to try a different usble before getting a new one. There is a signal on the left side but its very week and only slightly picks up the loudest peaks. The mixer to the line in worked as it should.

Would coming out of the headphone jack on my mixer into the mic input on my computers sound card work? That way I could bypass the FastTrack and see if it fixes the problem.

What I have been doing to get around this problem is recording in stereo. Then splitting the stereo track, deleting the left track and then making the right track mono. I can't just record in Mono, because mono records off of the left input, to which I am getting little to no signal.

I'm using an M-Audio Fast Track interface to record bass samples on Audacity. I'm only able to record in stereo, because I am only getting an input signal on the right channel. The left channel is just a recording white noise, and the random high frequency peak from the instrument signal. Is this a ...