AA 2.0...Volume kicks in louder when a track is armed to record.

[Johnnyjams]

Using Asio driver with a hercules sound card. No increase on level inputs but the volume is louder on head phones and speakers when a track is armed to record. The recording is normal. Anyone run across this ? Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your responses. The Hercules sound card has done me good for quite a long time now. It has an external box with a mic input rca in/outs headphone jack and so on. It seems to have some noise on it now & then so it’s time for an upgrade. There’s a lot out there to choose from, just don’t know which one yet.

[RawDepth]

Louder than what?

[bouldersoundguy]

Perhaps you have direct hardware monitoring active and arming a track turns on software monitoring. Use one or the other.

(Maybe you'd be better off with an audio interface actually designed for recording.)

[Bobbsy]

Does your sound card have recording and playback mixers like Sound Blaster rubbish used to? If so, check that you don't have a couple of channels both enabled for playback--maybe "mic in" and "what you hear" or any of an infinite number of combinations that would playback your recording mic twice.

But I agree--your sound card is totally unsuitable for any form of serious recording.