I have my HD connected via USB and I am getting a fairly good signal coming into the computer.

My problem is that the PC system sounds are Waaaaaaaay to loud compared to the HD. So for example if I play an mp3 backing track I have to turn the volume on the PC application (eg VLC media player or winamp) right down to maybe 5% or 10% otherwise it is way to loud compared to the guitar.

I have looked in the Line6 settings in Control panel and turned the HD input up to max.

The other problem is that although I can turn down the backing track volume (and there have been times when I have forgotten - thankfully not wearing phones at the time!) I cant turn down the system sounds. I do realize that I can choose a silent sound scheme, but really I would like to be able to control the sound better.

I have other ways to deal with this - obviously, unless I want to record, I can feed the PCs line out to the CD/MP3 in on the HD.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

John