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ADOBE AUDITION 1.5 SUDDENLY RECORDING TOO QUIET

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nightfly61

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I've cranked the volume levels on the cound card itself, checked out the bus settings on Adobe, everything!
It will only go up to about -39 and there's barely any audio there. It just all of a sudden started doing this. Just for comparisons sake I recorded a station's web stream then recorded the "input" from my board. Both have the same mysterious low levels. (multi-track view AND edit waveform view). I checked the "help" page & there's nothing there. ??? Thanks.
 
While it may be obvious to some, have you checked the usual suspects like the Windows mixer, sound card codecs, etc? Do you have multiple sound cards or a sound card in addition to motherboard audio? I've see multiple sound cards and/or the Windows mixer card issues with Audition.

Personally, I use 1.5 as I'm not a fan of either the 2.0 or 3.0 interface.
 
My first suspicion would be the sound card and issue electrical and mechanical. (Dirty connection in jack?)

Do you have any other audio software on the machine. If so, try recording with it and see if it also has lost its vigor.

I am not aware of a gain control in the Audition software. There may be a menu that takes you to Windows Mixer controls, but they are part of the sound card drivers, and how the sound card interfaces with Windows. (Oooops. You are on Windows? Yes?) My AudioPhile 24/96 allows no control of recording volume. You have to have external ability to control what is going into the input jack.

You say you cranked up the gains. Does that mean if you turn down the input/recording volume on Windows Mixer, the sound being recorded gets even softer?

Some drivers hide a "check box" on the Windows Mixer screens to "Reduce input by 20db". Make sure you are not over looking one of those.

There are usually two controls in Windows Mixer that affect the level: the LINE IN or MIC IN control, and then the MASTER level. Make sure you are not ignoring one while trying to save the world with the other control.

Do you have any equipment the sound is going through on the way to the sound card that could have been changed? My mic preamp was incapable of creating enough signal to drive my sound card so I have a small two channel mixer hidden under the desk that supposedly never gets touched. I forget that it is there. I think my stinky stocking covered feet brush up against a control from time to time and I have to go through again and "stage the gain" all the way from mic to computer all over again.

And one final thing to think about. I once damaged a sound card by feeding in such a strong signal that some little solid state component in the sound card became damaged for life. I'm not sure how you would determine that was the cause in your case.
 
I'll throw-out something really basic that I just resolved with my studio computer. A week ago, someone complained that their recordings had really low levels and a high noise floor. I tried the computer and sure enough, that was the problem. What I found: when you start a recording in Audition, the first box that comes up allows you to select the sample rate and the bit-depth; one of the staffers had errantly selected "8-bit" for the depth. Correcting that for "16-bit" resolved the issue. Of course, none of the the other DJ's picked-up on that (I missed it as well on the first time through) I left a health nasty-gram taped to the computer in hopes that the offender will not putz around with the default settings again ::)
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Thanks all...I'll try these...going offline to open up machine & give it a good blast of air & clean the leads on audio card. Thanks again!
 
If you have a pro sound card make damn sure it's not set on mic level in. I have had my Audio Sciences card in one of the production rooms jump off the proper setting several times over the course of time. Just thowing that out just in case! :)
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
If you have a pro sound card make damn sure it's not set on mic level in. I have had my Audio Sciences card in one of the production rooms jump off the proper setting several times over the course of time. Just thowing that out just in case! :)
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It's an EMU 1212m card...and now it's working again. I shut the thing off a while, defrag-ed, and somehow it's back to normal! Thanks again, all!
 
Using some of the old Audio Science cards from a Scott Studios SS16 system (from '99). Found that uninstalling & reinstalling the drivers fixed any low level audio problems.
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nightfly61 said:
It's an EMU 1212m card...and now it's working again. I shut the thing off a while, defrag-ed, and somehow it's back to normal! Thanks again, all!
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Hmmmm. Makes you wonder if maybe there's a thermal problem. It would be interesting to hear if the problem recurs...
 
SirRoxalot said:
nightfly61 said:
It's an EMU 1212m card...and now it's working again. I shut the thing off a while, defrag-ed, and somehow it's back to normal! Thanks again, all!
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Hmmmm. Makes you wonder if maybe there's a thermal problem. It would be interesting to hear if the problem recurs...
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So far so good (fingers crossed)...Just trying to find the right setting to clean up these muddy old cassettes! :) Thanx again all!
 
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