Monitor/Interface/Hard Drive Questions

[Wagsi]

1st Question- Okay so ill get the more important question out of the way. First off I'll start off by asking, does anyone have a Tascam US - 1800 - http://tascam.com/product/us-1800/ ? If not, no big deal, but when you produce is it normal that everything is on full blast all the time? When i have everything hooked up, which it is all hooked up correctly I have have no volume control coming from my interface, as well as my mac. So I was forced to put my monitors on -30dB and I don't even know what my sub is under, very low as well. And if I'm producing with the volumes down, it renders/sounds that way all the time? Understand?

2nd Question - So I have a 2 TB G-Drive http://g-technology.com/products/g-raid.cfm , and right now it's about halfway full. So I went to go clean it out the other day, delete what I didn't want, etc, but when i DO delete stuff, no space gets retrieved back on the drive. Like I backed up my computer onto it (320 GB) and went to delete the old backup, and I deleted the old one, but I'm still in the hole 640 + GB. Is there a way to refresh? Or what, i feel like this should definitely be a problem, unless it is an easy fix!

[IC0N]

For your second question, if your on a Mac (I don't know if this applies to PC too) you should just have to empty your trash bin.

[FSTZ]

get yourself a level pilot to control your volume

under $100 dollars, it's passive and it wont color your sound

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[Ongelegen]

Had look at the US-1800, as far as I can see it does have a volume control. Its next to the headphone volume on the the right side, where it says 'monitor'.

[Wagsi]

ICON - Does nothing, i'm a long time mac user< i wouldnt be asking if it were that easy

FSTZ - Looking into it.

Project EX - I know this also, but the knob does nothing, not for the monitors, not for headphones, not one thing :/

[Ongelegen]

Well maybe you have your monitors connected to different outputs?

[symmetricalsounds]

Project EX - I know this also, but the knob does nothing, not for the monitors, not for headphones, not one thing :/

yeah as project said are you going out of the right output? plus the headphones knob would be used for headphones not the monitor one. i used to have the tascam us-428 and now own the tascam fw-1804 and the monitor knob changes my volume fine so can't really see why it would be any different.

maybe you should outline exactly how you have everything connected?

btw i have my monitors on about -30db anyways even though my monitor volume knob does work.

[Wagsi]

Project EX - I know this also, but the knob does nothing, not for the monitors, not for headphones, not one thing :/

yeah as project said are you going out of the right output? plus the headphones knob would be used for headphones not the monitor one. i used to have the tascam us-428 and now own the tascam fw-1804 and the monitor knob changes my volume fine so can't really see why it would be any different.

maybe you should outline exactly how you have everything connected?

btw i have my monitors on about -30db anyways even though my monitor volume knob does work.

The 2 that they are in are labeled (monitor) and they seem to be the only 2 that work.

[symmetricalsounds]

when you have headphones plugged in does the headphone knob change the headphone volume?

[Wagsi]

when you have headphones plugged in does the headphone knob change the headphone volume?

It doesnt pick up when the headphones are in

[symmetricalsounds]

when you have headphones plugged in does the headphone knob change the headphone volume?

It doesnt pick up when the headphones are in

so nothing at all out of the headphones port? could be summat bigger than i thought, tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the interface?

[Wagsi]

when you have headphones plugged in does the headphone knob change the headphone volume?

It doesnt pick up when the headphones are in

so nothing at all out of the headphones port? could be summat bigger than i thought, tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the interface?

Gunna do that now

[samkablaam]

you arent running a continuous back up sync thing are you?