In trying to figure out how to fix this, I realized I am very confused by the concept of gain levels. Totally ignored that knob like an idiot, problem solved now. I failed to notice this one knob on my Scarlett2i4 interface, which shows 'input' on the left and 'playback' on the right (it was turned all the way to the left). Yur2die4, your response helped me solve this problem. Trying to get a better listen to my tracks through headphones as opposed to my computer speakers, but can't hear anything. Is there a way to adjust the headphone volume for monitoring that I'm not aware of? Like I said, I can hear everything loud and clear through the headphones when there's live audio coming in thru the mic, and while monitoring in real time while recording, but when I play back the recorded track, the volume of the master track is almost silent. And when I go into preferences and switch the output to my computer's speakers, the volume is normal and I can hear what I've recorded at a normal volume. After I do the actual recording (acoustic guitar in this case) and go to listen to the master track with the same headphones plugged into my interface, the volume is extremely low (barely audible even after raising the volume knob on the interface).

I adjust the gain and everything to hear the track is at a good volume and the right levels for me to record. I have a microphone plugged into my audio interface and can hear through the headphones what is coming into the input loud and clear. I've recorded a few tracks in the past without this issue but don't know what is going on this time around. Hey guys this is an especially amateur issue but especially irritating that I can't figure it out

Headphone volume low on computer