Low volume ASIO Recording with microphone

[floridamedicalmarijuana2012]

I recently upgraded to windows 7 from XP. I do not recall this being an issue before. The microphone i have plugged into the 1/8" jack on the thinkpad x61. It will record at a listenable level in sound recorder. Microphone works. When I try recording using ASIO, in cubase fruityloops or ableton, the microphone barely picks anything up. I have to blow into it or tap it so that the input level meter will go up to 0. It only goes about halfway up at the most with regular voice. I searched the site and found this post mtippach.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=likelynotabugbutthereisaproblem&thread=1790&page=1

followed the steps and hoped but it didnt change a thing. today I upgraded to the latest 2.10 beta is it? didnt help. i have exhausted all my ideas and now i ask you. halp. i need recording volume! thanks

[bruce]

i am haveing the same problem i dont know what the problem is but the same symtoms as you i need some help

[SJ]

Hi I faced the similar problem. Does ASIO work with regular laptop soundcard, or you need to buy an external good quality Sound Card. Did it work for you. If yes, please let me know. Also, when I try recording using Sonar LE, I can only heaar the Metronome used during recoding from my Laptop speakers. It does not play the recorded voice at all, though the cursor keeps moving.

[exyll]

Some souncard both share mic and line-in on the same port. On my soundblaster gamer I need to have the correct input attached before turning the computer on. Try this first and maybe this fixes your issue.


Second, right click the lower right speaker icon, click recording devices, go to the properties of your line-in or mic-in port and see if the input level is set high enough. Also check if any microphone gain is set.

[floridamedicalmarijuana2012]

hi. i have tried cranking the volume in windows 7 vol controls and using microphone boost. either neither worked or microphone boost made it sound terribly distorted. I am using the Intel GM965 chipset i believe the soundcard is integrated. should i just assume the soundcard is shit and get a new better external one? i'd hate to spend money and have the same problem.

[andy b]

not an asnwer but

[andyb]

not an answer but it seems the asio driver is a problem. i have a windows 7 dell 1545 inspiron laptop with built in mike array in web cam area of the casing. When i try to use an Alesis IO2 express multi-instrument (jack, midi etc) interface to the USB port for us with cubase software and the asio driver the instruments such as guitar are very low input as the webcam mike array becomes active (even though i disabled it in Windows control panel) and it confilcts with e.g. my guitar input via the Alesis. Likewise if I just plug a jack mike into the line-in port for use in Cubase, its input is very low and yes, the mike array is enabled even though previously disabled (at which point the graphic recorning level in Control panel for the external mike input is very dynamic when i sing into it showing it was working properly) once the asio driver is loaded. Alesis cannot help me...can anyone ?