There are many ways and methods contained in RB to help bring your audio up. As others have noted, it's not likely your hardware, mic, driver or latency. It is your audio signal chain where to focus.

The bad news is, if you think there are a lot of opinions about ASIO vs MME, drivers and latency, audio signal chain opinions dwarf that discussion. The good news, it doesn't matter. Regardless whether you record 16 bit, 24 bit or floating bit; whether you aim to have -6 db level or -12 db level, the successful goal is to capture a clean recording that is above the noise floor and below clipping.

Capturing a clear recording. Memorize that line. There are many pathways, methods and techniques. All of the recording bit rates, db levels, distance you place yourself from the mic are all important things to know but many times they become more important to the outcome use of your recording than the recording itself. For instance, if you will be adding 30 or so VST's, effects,and other high end processing, using 24 bit for the additional headroom it provides is important.

RB is more than adequate to meet your needs to obtain a clear audio recording. Memorize that line too. You don't need to use another DAW for recording unless the workflow is more comfortable to you. RB has stock tools to bring up the level of low audio and the method to use depends somewhat on the level the audio is at in relation to noise.

Some suggestions, to consider - there are no hard, fast rules.

Before beginning to mix, balance your audio tracks. Lower louder tracks and bring up the quieter tracks. Between -12 -- -3 db for an overall level. I try to use -6db on my tracks. Again, the amount of post processing will have an impact on what the correct level of your tracks will be.

RB offers gain change, compression, limiting as options to raise a low audio recording. RB has a good gate to eliminate noise (hiss or low level hum) if necessary.

If recording clean audio continues to be an obstacle to having fun and having useable tracks to work with, consider recording to another media other than your computer.

Companies such as zoom and Tascam and others offer inexpensive digital recorders that require very little setup to record tracks. These are easily found used on Ebay or Craigslist at very affordable prices. Most record a minimum of two tracks but there are affordable models recording as many as 8 simultaneous tracks. These are portable so they can be used anywhere. They save the recordings to removable media such as SD cards, so the tracks are easily imported into RB or another DAW to process your project. Be sure if you go that route to choose a model that records at least 44.1/16 wav. Most, if not all do.

I have a Tascam DP-24 that records up to 8 tracks simultaneously and is up and recording in seconds. It is as easy to set up and record audio as the cassette recorders we are all familiar with. I have owned several models since the 1980's and have never suffered a crash or major glitch.

My workflow is to create a backing track in BIAB, export a stereo master and import the master into the DP-24 and add my additional live tracks. I import these additional tracks into RB or another DAW for final processing.

There are many other options, this is just one way. Others may present suggestions that suit you better. Just choose the way that best fits your workflow and use it. Hope this helps.

Charlie

BIAB 2026:RB 2026, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.