Audio Level Gone After Capture

Hello,
I've searched the forums and found one with this problem, and it wasn't resolved.
Basically, I'm previewing audio before and during capture and the levels are great. Then, upon playing back, I open the audio up in the viewer, and even there the levels look great, but it plays back really low - and distroted.
It appears the tape (coming in from my miniDV camcorder) is fine as the level is fine on preview. And it's not my speakers or anything like that, otherwise I'd have the problem during preview, also.
Any thoughts or help would be fantastic.
Thanks,
Matt

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