I think fiddling around with your settings even more is not gonna make it any louder, and the headroom feature is there for a reason too, it is not a bad thing to use at all. Some soundcards are just not that loud. I have some experience with PA too, you should just use a live mixer and gain it correctly on there. Trying to get your soundcard louder on the software/settings side of things can get you into deep shit in therms of distortion/clipping etc.. And nobody wants that. The only thing i could think of would be to compare your k2 to somebody else’s and see if that one really is louder.
And if there is no mixing table available, i don’t see why, but anyways you can use a device like this: http://www.htd.com/LGB-1
Good luck finding a solution
Did you check your traktor gain? I have assigned the traktor gain to a Midi device that’s not always used. Sometimes, inexplicably the gain is set to very low is the device is not connected.
Any chance of the output jack ever being abused? Bad contact here may lower the volume without affecting sound quality noticably.
A&H are not the kind of company tou fit bad sound cards in devices.
sat down and went over it all, fixed it in a sense, basically headroom as 0db, I pushed the master volume up 3/4 of the way on traktor which made it peak in traktor but does not peak on the external mixer which gave me the extra boost, channel gains in traktor were pushed up a little say about less that a quater more
it puts it upto 0db on the xone 92
the card is quiet compared to the ni audio series on the same mixer
either way i have room to up the volume a bit on both traktor gain channels and external mixer
ive ordered some new cables better quality to maybe better the sound
Hate to burst your bubble, but cables are NOT a factor in sound quality. You may feel it sounds better because they look better. Better cable may withstand more abuse than others, but in a dj setup, cables are no factor at all.
Typical input circuitry is 100Kohm impendance. Your worst cable will have a 0,01ohm Impendance. Your cable reduces the signal by a factor 0,0000001%. Audible effects are therfore below -80dB
…it’s a gross oversimplification of things, but it does get the point across
Sometimes the plastic housing of devices keeps you from fully inserting the jack. This will result in one channel sound only or a very dim signal, but it seems to me that’s no issue with the K2 (try pulling out your headphone jack a bit)
Too bad, problem not solved for me.
Turned up the gain on the club mixer, but still the volume was so low that even if I turned the gains on the other channels on the club mixer all the way down (CDJ’s) the K2 still could n’t match the volume. Simply can’t use the audio interface of the K2. Additional problem is that when I connect the K2 it also fucks up the audio from my other audio interfaces (contour, traktor audio 2), so effectively can’t use it as a controller either.
I’m sorry but I don’t believe that. Either something is broken, you did something wrong, or your lying. Or the mixer you used has the worst narrowest range on the gain knob, which I think is highly unlikely as it would defeat the purpose of gain knob.
What mixer were you using? You sure you have turned up the volume in your software? I’ve seen DJs forget to do that before
DJM 900, volume in Traktor all the way up, 0 headroom, autogain turned off.
K2 has been quiet since i first got it, and this is a known issue with the K2.
Believe what you want, this is my problem, and I’m farely confident there ain’t much that I can do on the software side, unless someone has come up with a solution to the quiet K2
Connecting the K2 shouldn’t affect the output volume of the other sound cards, however there IS a setting in Windows which can screw with output volume of different pieces of gear. Check the “Communications” tab in Sound control panel, and disable “reduce the volume of other sounds by XXX”.
The output volume (and latency for that matter) of the Contour is incredible, so you should be using that as your main interface anyway.
