New to Cool Edit, can't get enough volume

[Robw_z]

Alright,
so a buddy is away for Thanksgiving weekend and said I could use his recording stuff. I'm probably going to give too much info here, I think this is a simple problem, but it goes like this: Keyboard(Yamaha DGX-202) to a Mixer(Eurorack MX 602A) to a processing unit(RolandED UA-100G) to the computer sound card via USB cable. I have used Cool Edit Pro(2.0) successfuly before when he already had it running, but now even though I know the keyboard sound is getting to the processor AND the computer, I'm not getting nearly enough sound.

If I crank all the gains between the keyboard and the computer, hit record, I can see the sound bars at the bottom bounce to a maximum of about -54db. When I hit "play" there is no sound, and there are no wavey-looking things on the graph-looking bars. If I zoom in Realllly far, I can actually see that I have recorded it's just a "smpl" range of 0-50. If I crank the speakers and hit play I can hear it, but severely faintly.

I looked around Cool Edit as much as I could and could find nothing. I went to "amplify" and cranked it to +48 but that did nothing. Please help, I wanna be a rock star!

-Rob

 

[gasal69]

Sound Card

I don't thing you should NOT do any amplifying in Cool Edit.
You need to check your sound card settings.
There should be many faders there and depends of your card.
Mic.; Midi; Line in etc.

I think you should turn your "Line in" fader up. (Try to find the best position to adjust your signal inn perfectly) This is also depending of out signal from your
amplifier. Make some nice balance!

If you recording through MIC input than turn this one up.

You can find those settings in your windows settings for sound.

I suppose you are using windows XP.
There is an icon somewhere beside your digital clock on the tray wit a speaker’s picture on it.
Right click on it! (This is one way to open windows mix board.
If you go to control panel/sounds and sound units) you will find more options for sound, microphone, etc)

 

[SEDstar]

hm...i went thru this at my guitarists house once...

While we were first scratching our heads in the "learning curve", we had problems with very very faint signals off of the microphone.

believe it or not, though it sounded counter-intuitive...it was fixed by going to the windows or sound cards wondow,where you select and deselect and turn volume up and down.

turn everythign else off but the mic, and what you NEED, and...heres the counter intuituve part...you totally MUTE the microphone. I know it sounds stupid, but in that installation, all of a sudden the signal was not -60 or whatnot...it was really swinging.

lord only knows how muting something makes it record properly, but...i swear to god this worked.