In other words, I am getting very low volume, even though the recording level is on 85 (I tried with 90 as well.
Now, the quality of the recorded audio is heavily subdued without the clear clarity I used to get. On Monday 26 November 2012, I reformatted my PC laptop hard disk and installed Windows 8 Pro. I have been using my new MXL USB 007 stereo microphone on Windows 7 Professional with clear quality audio for a while now.