[Ardour-Users] Ardour input level issues

[John Rigg]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:31:05PM -0400, Thomas Dermako wrote:
> Still working on this - here's a screenshot.
> http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd284/dermakot716/Screenshot.png
> Notice that the meter shows -3 db max, but the audio is quite distorted.
> This time I'm not monitoring thru the board at all and the levels are set
> really low. Yeah ok, behringer's crap, but I've been using this to monitor
> for over a year now with no probs. Any other ideas?

Sounds like a sound card problem, eg. your card has unbalanced
inputs designed for a much lower level than the line level outputs
on your mixer. What card are you using?

John