C4 audio volume is extremely loud

I'm using Captivate 4. A couple of months ago I had trouble with audio in that it was very low even when I shouted into the microphone. I tried using Sound Forge to record and had the same type of trouble, so I recorded from a laptop using Sound Forge, moved the audio files via jump drive to the office pc and imported them into Captivate. Lots of trouble, so I asked my IS department to look into it while I was in a class for three weeks.
Supposedly the problem is resolved, and when I use the Windows Sound recorder all is well.
Now when I record using Captivate and listen to the audio it's extremely loud to the point of distortion in the background. But when I ran the audio test it never came close to red. I've turned the mic volume to the lowest setting and turned off the boost. My IT people believe it is a "gain setting" in Captivate, but I can't find anything about gain settings in the Help files.
Any ideas?

Captivate 4 tries to automatically set the gain level if you use the Calibrate option from the Calibrate Input button on the Audio Settings dialog.
You set the gain level by talking into the microphone while Captivate is calibrating. Eventually after a few seconds it will arrive at a good level.
Captivate 5 allows you to set this gain yourself, as well as do an automatic level.

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Sorry for my English but I hope you understandthe following.
I have for the moment no time to go through your comments and ideas, but I certainly will do the coming days.
For good order I’ll explain my problem more in detail: (working with Window’s 7)
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