[# Fred #]

"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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# Fred # wrote:

I suspect either the gain on the Audigy is a little low but wonder if
others have the same problem.

Yes, this is a common problem, and not just with the Audigy/Jukebox
combination. It can occur any time you don't know what output level or
input sensitivity you have. But you might just not be interpreting the
meters correctly. If you're recording at 5% of maximum level, that's
-26 dBFS. It's only 10 dB below a "good" level.

Do you have anything else that you can connect to your Audigy to see
whether you can get the level up any higher? If something's broken, you
need to determine what it is, and if nothing's broken, then you need to
determine what you have. Just by the nature of these things, an RCA
input jack should have adequate sensitivity to record a headphone
output level.

Does your Jukebox have a Line Output jack? Try that. Maybe headphone
outputs aren't what they used to be.


My Jukebox has both headphone jack and a USB 2.0 port but no line out. I
couldn't upload from the USB because the pre-installed songs were factory
locked but I wanted to save it before I remove it from the Jukebox. Also I
have about six portable MP3 players and all of them don't have a lot of gain
to drive headphones very loud but most of my music is pop anyway so I don't
drive it hard except when I need to record it to the Audigy.

In any case, here is something new for me: My portable CD player has both
output and a headphone jacks and when I adjust the sound level on the
headphone jack to the same level as on the line out and connected to RCA
input on the Audigy the results were surprisingly different. On the CD
player via the headphone jack, the record level on the Audigy didn't
register at all but on the line out the record level is at 40% ! I didn't
know the impedances were so different between line out and headphone so I
really need a pre amp for the headphone output to match the impedance to the
RCA input on the Audigy to get good quality recordings. No?