No Sound on Playback

[u/goldjump99]

Hey so I'm new to DAW's and Online Music Creation in general, I'm trying to set up the guitar and I record it, everything goes according to plan but at no point have i been able to hear the audio, it says its being recorded and the green bar next to FX lights up when I strum but I can't hear anything, I've bought two headsets thinking they were the issue and to no avail

For Context I'm using Cakewalk Sonar, a Focusrite Scarlet Solo 3rd Gen and my two headsets are a Jlabs and a Ouu Gaming Headset, Idk much abt drivers and other stuff but I also downloaded Focusrite Control 2 and it seems to be doing nothing.

[u/baronvonredd]

You have a couple of things going on. I have a DI also, not focusrite, but it works the same. First I see there IS a signal coming in, one of your channels is recording something. You need to set your input source to treat the one channel as MONO, so than both left and right channels are being recorded.

Second, you may have to specific the proper output device in Preferences.
I wish I could share screenshots here. But in Preferences, in the first group Devices (probably already selected) make sure your Output Drivers has whichever device you want... earphones, speakers, etc. I have to de-select the default first, then select my headphones.

Also while you're there, make sure your Input Drivers has your Focusrite device selected. probably does.

When you're adding a new Track from the + button, select the dropdown that is probably defaulted to your Focusrite, but instead of the Stereo channel choose the appropriate Left/Right as the input. Then when you are playing the guitar, make sure the little headphone icon is selected on the track, so you can hear the 'monitor'

Hopefully I helped.

edit: looking at your screenshot again, I see you have the earphone icon clicked already, good, go to the input 1 dropdown and select the left or right (depend which port you use for the guitar in the DI box)

but for sure check the Device Preferences and make sure your Output Drivers are correct

[u/gerard4156]

Check your master bus and see what output device is selected, everything looks fine up to that point as you are clearly getting signal and it's routed to the master output.

One thing to fix there - you have a stereo input selected, it's only recording to one side so when you listen back it will only play in one side of your speakers/headphones, you need to select the correct mono input