Low maximum volume w/ headset

[Kurp]

The maximum volume I can set for my headset is quite low and I can't figure out how to get it any higher. At max volume it's at a level that I would call normal for listening in a quite room.

I have the volume set at max in control panel, whatever application I'm running, and on my headphones. Is there somewhere else to set volume levels that I'm somehow unaware of? Or, is there a way to force a higher max volume setting?

I'm running Vista 64 SP1. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (no sound card) and my headset is Plantronics Audio 470.

[JetEnduro]

On the volume settings check what your WAVE lvl is.

[Norellicus]

^

To elaborate, Start -> Run -> sndvol32 -> OK -> Set "Wave" level.

[Shuemue]

also possible you need to go into control panel and set the type of speakers you're using to headset

[Norellicus]

Eh, that usually only affects the spatial reference for the audio. You should still hear something, especially a channel-neutral 'beep'.

But it couldn't hurt I suppose

[Shuemue]

He said "it's quite low" so I just figured maybe it's set on 7:1 or something and only playing part of the sounds.

[Kurp]

I tried hooking my headphones up with USB and that seems to work a lot better. The regular jacks are a lot quieter, maybe around 50-66% of the volume that I get with USB.

It won't recognize these as headphones, but as speakers. Maybe that's the problem. It has headphones as not plugged in and routed to the front jacks (which I don't have hooked up). The speakers are using the rear jacks. I'm not sure how to switch them around to see if that's what causing it.

I did have it set on 2 speaker stereo and WAV or Windows Sounds was at 100%.

Oh well, it works fine with USB, so it's not a big deal. I'll poke around later to see if I can figure out how to switch the jacks around. Thanks for the help.

[DionyShiva]

I have that exact MB, it has a orange jack specifically for headphones (though you can re-assign each jack in the Realtek HD Audio manager), are you sure it's not plugged into Line out or another jack?