I’m trying to record my music to my PC and have been having some problems. I have a Behringer UCA202 Audio Interface that I’m using and the audio levels never get above -24. I’ve turned up the Playback and recording volumes in Audacity but that didn’t really help, I’ve turned up the system volume in the control panel, but that didn’t help. It’s been the same with my guitar and microphone (my mike is plugged into the Behringer, not the PC itself). I’ve heard that the PC has an internal mic, but in Audio Devices under Control Panel it says it isn’t available.
Any help on how to get the recording levels up would be appreciated. Thanks.
You missed a step. You plug your microphone into a microphone mixer which boosts the volume. The UCA202 takes the higher volume show from the mixer and digitizes it for Audacity.
This is my UCA202 with my sound mixer on the right.
Perfectly delightful microphone. It’s fame is with instruments, but I’ve used it for other things. I think it just got that reputation for no good reason.
You should know that a correctly matching connector (XLR3-Female) is a really good idea for that microphone. It’s at its best when you use all three of those sound pins on its bottom with no adapters (attach). Just a nice XLR microphone cable.
Ok, so now my problem is I’m not getting any sound from the microphone at all in Audacity, hooked up to the Xenyx 802. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. I have the gain turned up, inputs plugged into the outputs, what am I missing? Here’s my setup:
Connect the outputs of the USB interface to the “2-Track Inputs”.
The “2-TR TO CTRL ROOM/PHONES” button should be down.
See pages 7 and 8 of the Xenyx 802 user manual for pictures.
