Monitoring recording

[jademan]

while I am able to record and monitor the recording, I have no volume control over the monitored output.

I was hoping one our macOS elves would pop in here, but until they do, perhaps you can be inspired by this post:

Monitor Volume

I’m using Mac OS X 10.7.5 and Audacity 2.0.3… Can I reduce the monitor volume (i.e. the sound I hear during recording) without reducing recording volume? If so, how? I want to be able to listen while recording, but not at as high a level (it blasts my ears!) as I need for a good recording. I thought I could do it by moving the Audacity output volume slider toward the “-” end, but when I do that the recording volume goes down. I’ve also tried lowering the Mac’s speaker volume using the volume c…