Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver Volume

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Is there a way too increase the USB Line Volume/Gain both input and output? I’m using the Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver 1.10.1 for Windows with the Yamaha AG03 and the Windows volume controls are at 100 both for recording (input) and speakers (output) and I’m talking about the AG03 device that shows up in the Windows sound controls. It seems that the developers for the audio driver decreases the volume to avoid noise but one can decrease that themselves in the Windows Sound properties for the device.

I would to have more headroom for the audio line levels in the USB line interface doing so would prevent me from feeding so much audio in the mixer making the peaking lights engage just to get the right amount of audio though the USB line.

Coming from a Behringer q502 which is much louder that you operate it at 80/85 percent in the Windows sound panel; you have high headroom there. The Behringer uses the default Windows USB Audio driver which shows as “USB Audio Codec” and I think that the Behringer has such a strong input and output signals on USB - which I like - more than the Yamaha AG03 but I do thank that the Yamaha is getting a good signal and sending a good signal through USB, I just believe the Yamaha Steinberg USB Driver is “tuned” lower in audio. Does anyone agree with this or have any comment on it?

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The driver probably has nothing to do with it. If drivers changed the level of digital audio we’d be in a world of pain.

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Thank god, someone else has been having this issue.

I just came from a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd gen, which had low input volume as well. Thinking it was just the power of the interface, I bought a Steinberg UR-RT2 to hopefully fix it.

After plugging it in, I was very happy to see that the volume now actually reached the top of the windows sound control panel meter thing when I was actually reaching the limit (I guess clipping) of the mic input on the interface.

However, after installing the Yamaha Steinberg USB driver, I noticed immediatly that it had gone down again (weirdly similar levels to my focusrite originally). (I uninstalled and then reinstalled to validate my findings)

This low input volume thing is very annoying to me, because I don’t just use the mic to record vocals in some DAW (where turning up the volume after the fact is no problem), but I also use it for discord, where I’m having to ask people to boost me in voicechat, because the input volume is too low.

Have you found a solution (that isn’t using voicemeeter banana or something like it, because the software is a chore to work with) to this issue? Would really help me out. Thanks in advance