control output volume while recording

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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I know this has been talked about before but I couldn’t find any recent info.

Can I reduce the monitor volume (i.e. the sound I hear during recording) independent of system volume? I can’t find a way of doing it.

I have Blackhole, Background Music installed and am happy to use them to get where I want to be.

Thanks

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Mac M1 RAM 16GB running MacOS v 12.6 Audacity 3.2.1

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Should I already know the answer to this?

Help anyone?

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Why not use “system volume”?

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I’d like to be able to turn down the volume on Audacity independent of the system volume, so that while I’m ripping an LP I can check the recording then listen to something else.

The BackgroundMusic App (https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic) can control other apps but for some reason not Audacity, otherwise I’d do it that way.

Thanks

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My mistake. If I route Audacity into Background music, I can raise and lower the volume!

It would be nice to be able to do this with just Audacity, but at least I can get the result I want.