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I can't hear the recording through both ears of the headphones.

Where are the headphones plugged in? The Solo or the computer?

Koz

What are you mastering? Are you reading for audiobooks? We publish a suite of tools that will take you from a raw performance recording to a submission master. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 It takes into account the three ACX AudioBook specifications: peak overload, lo...

You see what we're doing? We're tracing the signal pathway from the microphone forward through the system. Sooner or later something is going to happen that's out of character. I expect the Solo to red knob overload slightly before the signal clips. It's 'fair warning' rather than 'sorry your show i...

Audacity doesn't apply filters, effects or corrections in real time. So whatever Windows throws its way is what happens. mic -> Focusrite -> laptop That's what I was going to suggest you do. Switch the 48 volt phantom power on in the Solo to run the Bluebird. The Solo should mount in Windows as Mono...

I think you have two Microphone Preamps in the system and you're beating the Solo black and blue. Connect the dbx 286s Ring-Tip-Sleeve (if there is one) into the Focusrite Line/Instrument-in and switch it to Line.

I really do have to go.

Koz

You lost me there Well shucks. Start over. No external sound card. Yes, you do. The focus rite solo is an external soundcard. But it's a mono soundcard, so I expect it to work and do what you want. I need to stop and look all that up. Now you're into odd configurations and weird mismatches. Has it ...

Could it be that the very first time I tried to install the Behringer drivers something messed up? You are oozing into foreign territory. I'm not a Windows elf and I don't know the particulars of driver health and configuration. When you had all the drivers ripped out, did the UMC work? Both direct...

I use a mono soundcard, the Behringer UM2 whose goal in life is to make mono. That's it on the left.



There are two others I can look up.

Koz

External soundcards are not sound mixers. You can't arbitrarily assign sound to the channels. When you capture in mono, the system automatically reduced everything by half to avoid overload and sound damage. You can also simply use 50% (-6dB on the sound meters) as your goal. Adjust volume in Audaci...

Are you using a stereo external soundcard configured for mono? Stop that. Configure the stereo soundcard for stereo and the problem should vanish. When you get your stereo show, use the dropdown to the left of the track > Split stereo to Mono. Delete the dead track.

Did I hit it?

Koz