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problems with volume

farleft	Date: August 24, 2006 @ 4:48 AM hey guys thanx for your help on my last post. im using cool edit pro 2 and have been having problems when recording guitar on the program. whenever i record it starts off at one sound level but then after a second or 2 the recording drops the sound alot you can see it on the wave recording it gets smaller. its almost like the program is going woaah ok sound turn it down a bit .. there thats ok. the recording then settles on this lower volume for the remainder of the recording. can anyone help me sort this out? thanx
tribalproduc...	Date: August 24, 2006 @ 9:59 PM reinstall it.....
woodhead	Date: August 25, 2006 @ 1:36 AM maybe to loud, a quick fix could and i do say Could be to normalize the track to make it all the same.
pog	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 9:58 AM I'm wondering if the soundcard is loosing power from running too high. Did it do it before? Is it the result of updating the drivers to your soundcard?? If so then downgrade the drivers to the one that came with the soundcard... if not, then consider getting the latest drivers for the soundcard. It could be something as simple as having the volume too high in the first place, and the card is bogging down from being abused, then the drivers are compensating.
TameasDust	Date: August 27, 2006 @ 12:07 PM Get a better soundcard like one of these http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=pciinterfaces
hueseph	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 4:16 AM If you have a compressor in the signal chain at any point, that would cause this. Especially if you have a particularly long release time. It could be that your sound card has a built in limiter circuitry which prevents overload (clipping). If you are using a standard PC soundcard (SoundBlaster included) TameasDust's suggestion of a new sound card is definitely in order. Most consumer cards are not meant to do more than record speech if anything at all.
MindSculpture	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 4:25 PM First of all - how are you recording the guitar? do you mean an acoustic imput into your soundcard via a mic? or is it electric guitar into the card via 1/4 inch jack? Also I would echo huesephs point about a compressor in the signal chain. I use a Roland mic modeling amp/ compressor between my mic and soundcard and it is quite easy to come by the symptoms you are decribing. (I also record with Adobe Audition / cool edit)

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