I was writing another message and almost finished when it went off into the etherworld. Can't find it anywhere.
Matt I'm using an M-Audio M-Track interface.
You are correct Ron..there are no plugins at work except for the coyotewt.
Noel, your suggestion about resetting to factory has gotten me much closer to the source of the problem. When I did that BIAB was reset to using the mme driver. The volume levels significantly increased. I had been using an asio driver.
I currently have 3 asio drivers. One for the m-track, asio4all and the fender universal driver. It seems like all of them output at a reduced volume compared to mme. I will certainly have to investigate this a bit further.
This can explain why the same file played back in different applications can be so much different in volume levels.
I don't know a heck of a lot about asio other than it reduces latency, which is desirable. I also don't know if these drivers work well with windows 8 or if I should be looking for something else. Perhaps if I want to use asio I'll just have to crank things up (??)
Setting up a new pc with a new operating system and software can be such an adventure can't it?