Hello everybody.

I want to say that I have been using Line6 POD xt for several years and I could not solve this problem yet.

The problem is: when you try to record clean variax guitar (connected to VDI) over USB, the recording level is very low, even if  you increase PODxt monitor level to maximum.

I tried this with both Variax 700 guitar and Variax Bass 700. Main problem is with the Variax Bass. Variax 700 guitar has better clean output (about 12 bit).

I tried Windows XP and Windows 7 - the same.

I tried Cubase, Sonar, Adobe Audition. All the same.

Master input level in Windows is maximum.

http://clip2net.com/clip/m32789/1323004599-clip-149kb.png?nocache=1

Here is the recording level of Variax Bass 700: http://clip2net.com/clip/m32789/1322994189-clip-24kb.png?nocache=1

Here are my settings in Audio-MIDI devices: http://clip2net.com/clip/m32789/1322993605-clip-14kb.png?nocache=1

You can easily see that sound level is about +700 -700, which uses about 10 bits out of a 16 bit signal. And you know that recording at 10 bits is a problem for getting good music quality.

Can anybody suggest, how to increase the recording level over USB?

Thank you in advance!