sound recording

[campbellbrian2001]

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I'm trying to record my
acoustic guitar with a PC (Dell, 512mghz, Pentium III, Sony microphone
plugged into back, Windows XP Pro, Audacity Music Editor). The problem
is I can't get any playback volume high enough. I've turned all
possible controls from Audacity and Control Panel to highest settings
for both recording and playback.
I still can barely hear my playing. The microphone is about 8" from the
sound-hole. Any clues!?
Thanks! Brian

 

[Chris Laarman]

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Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I'm trying to record my
acoustic guitar with a PC (Dell, 512mghz, Pentium III, Sony microphone
plugged into back, Windows XP Pro, Audacity Music Editor). The problem
is I can't get any playback volume high enough. I've turned all
possible controls from Audacity and Control Panel to highest settings
for both recording and playback.
I still can barely hear my playing. The microphone is about 8" from
the sound-hole. Any clues!?

1a) How about the Volume sliders for Recording? Did you mean those by
"Control Panel"?
1b) You may have a mixer with your sound card that influences volume
independant from Volume settings.

2) For playback you could make Audacity change the volume of the file. See
menu Effect | Normalize. (You may consider performing other operations
first, like noise removal.)

 

[Guest]

Be certain the Mic is plugged into the Mic input and not the Aux input of the
sound card, Mic OUT PUT is of a much smaller voltage and will not be heard
well thru a standard 150mv line/aux input. It is a voltage mixmatch much like
plugging a magnetic phono output into a standard ceramic phone input without
a preamp.