Audacity Forum

I'm using Audacity 1.2.6 with XP. I'm running the spdif digital audio output from my Line 6 Toneport UX2 to the spdif input on my creative labs X-Fi sound card.
When I adjust the Audacity consol slider that has the picture of a microphone & is labelled as 'input vol' when you move the slider, it only changes the vol I hear but not the recording level of my guitar. The red VU's on the right are still hitting the limit on volume peaks & I so get a little distortion on playback.
I've set prefs to my Toneport UX2 card for in & out but still this problem is happening. Even when I reduce the 'vol out to hardware' on my tonelab Gearbox software consol it doesn't change record volume. It only changes the monitor volume. In other words what I hear !
I can only change the record volume if I adjust the knob on the virtual preamp on the gearbox consol.
UPDATE
I changed Audacity prefs to X-Fi soundcard & now the controls respond correctly but now I only get sound through earphones plugged into sound card. No sound through PC speakers !
Way round this is to go back ro control panel & set X-Fi as monitor device. Does this mean that the Line 6 UX2 can only ever be an input sound card but not out put of sound from PC ?
There are so many permutaions it's quite confusing.

You designed one of the more complicated sound systems--further complicated by having it all in a PC, which, by the last calculation has 254,976 different sound pathway combinations--with one simple sound card.

I started to look up the equipment you have and pretty much gave up. You probably should know that Audacity does have the ability to route its recording show back out to another device.

Audacity Preferences > Audio I/O > Software Playthrough and Hardware Playthrough.

Their job is to let you listen to the recording during the performance so, for example, you can add tracks to an existing performance. There are two of them so you can use the one that offers the least delay and damage. By far the best place to listen is upstream--at the amplifier or the Mic Pre. Consider Audacity a very talented tape recorder.

By the way, when you get far enough along to record a performance, Export As WAV to get one, high quality, stand-alone sound file for storage, backup, and further editing. Audacity doesn't Save sound files. It saves Projects which are very versatile and fast, but you can't move or email them and they're easily damaged--permanently.

Koz