Input level very low

Anyone else have trouble hearing or being heard with the MBP suing iChat?
I can barely hear the other person during a video chat. Or audio chat. And volume is all the way up on both of us. And they can barely hear me on their MacBook?
Playing iTunes is fine. iChat is so low it's almost unusable

Hi music,
Go to System Preferences- Sound- and click on the Imput button. Make sure the slider for Imput volume is set where you prefer it.

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09 wouldn't be any different it's the fast track. Many people have mentioned the low record levels with the fast track usb. Most of the time it is with mic not instrument. You could probably add some AU plugin to boost the recorded signal or turn the virtual amps. Or put a eq, compressor or some pedal that can add gain between the guitar and fast track.

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I tried to record and use some voice microphone and some guitars (telecatser, some preamplified acoustic flattop, some archtops with humbucker or P90...)with Logic and SK 48 TC near.
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+"I do not find in Logic how to increase the input gain from the audio interface..."+
You don't (apart from the level fader of the Record Track, of course).
You can adjust input levels in +Audio MIDI Setup,+ but when I suggested checking there you replied: +"Thanks a lot, but everything is weel set up ???"+
So you need to look at the software that controls your interface.

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Input level too low

I'm trying to record audio from my guitar via an M-Audio Fasttrack guitar / mic recording interface. All levels are at 100%, but the recording is far too silent. (Instead, the metronome is recorded…)
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I have had input level problems ever since I bought my iO 26 interface too with Logic Express 9. Here are 2 things I do which might help you. In Inserts go to EQ, Channel-EQ has a Master Gain on the left. I raise it to what I need. Another way I do it is to pull up Gain in Utility and raise the volume there. There might be a better way to do it but I have not found it. I hope this helps.
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Why would audio input level go very low?

I'm sure I've done something dumb but I can't work out what it is. I'm recording with a mic into my laptop and the sound is really quiet.
I've used this set-up loads of times without this problem: Audition CC, Rode shotgun videomic into MacBook Pro.
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ben.bland wrote:
In Audio Midi Setup the levels are greyed out, and in any case set high, at "Value = 0.917" and "dB = 10".
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Likewise, in Preferences > Sound the input level is near the top.
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