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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!?
Thanks! Brian
 
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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!?
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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.)
 
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.
 
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