Hi all! New to this group, so I did some searching first. “Recording” and “Volume” are pretty common, so maybe I missed some earlier discussion about my problem.
I am using Windows 10 v1903, Audacity 2.4.2.
When I set the Recording Volume level to some value lower than 1 (say, 0.5), my microphone attenuates the sound just as I expect it to, until I use my Logitech H390 USB headset. Whenever I start a recording using that, the volume level is 1.0, regardless of where the slider is on my screen. For example, if I set the slider to level 0.10 and start a recording, the slider stays where I put it, but my recording is just as loud as if the level had been set to 1.0. If, while recording is in progress, I move the slider a tiny bit (so it changes from 0.10, to 0.11, for example), the level of the recording immediately drops by quite a bit. But, after I stop the recording, although the slider never moves on the screen, the next recording I start again records as though the Recording Volume were set to 1.0 (until, again, I move the slider by any amount).
My Logitech “Rock Band” microphone does not exhibit this problem. It always records at whatever level the slider is set to. The only difference I can see in the two devices is that one is a combined input/output audio device (the headset), while the other is input-only (the “Rock Band” microphone).
Any idea what’s causing my problem?