I came to visit a friend who I’m working on a couple songs with and I brought all my studio equipment (which works perfectly fine on my computer, so I know how to hook it up) but when we hooked it up to his computer (which is newer/nicer than mine) it’s impossible to record. Even at -6db the playback after recording is coming through insane loud and distorted. If it matters I’m using a PV6 USB Mixer on Windows 7 and Audacity from the .exe installer. How can I fix this so we can record? I’m only gonna be here a couple more days and would really like to get some work done.
Can you get the volume to go down using the speaker symbol slider – playback volume in the Audacity toolbar? If you have nice bouncing meters and blue waves…
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Audacity1_playback.jpg
…then you have a perfect recording and it’s a computer playback problem.
I’m not on Windows, but this may help.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/mixer_toolbar.html
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html
The USB cable should be the only cable between the mixer and the computer. No sound cables, no data cables, zippo.
Koz