: USB interface recording, adjust phone monitor volume in BOSS ME 25 I recently tried to record my guitar playing using a USB interface in ME 25. I recorded it using Audacity. I used a headphone monitor plugged in the phone

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USB interface recording, adjust phone monitor volume in BOSS ME 25
I recently tried to record my guitar playing using a USB interface in ME 25.
I recorded it using Audacity. I used a headphone monitor plugged in the phone jack to hear my playing.
I struggle with the guitar volume, when I hear the guitar sound from the headphone it's already loud enough. But when I play back the recording I get a very low volume.
I tried increasing the volume using the volume knob and the pedal, but that translated to increase in volume in both the recording software and in my headphone. I can't stand more volume in my headphone, it's already loud, I only want to increase the volume in Audacity.
I got some reference from the owner manual:

Use your computer’s software to adjust the level of the signal input
via USB (it cannot be adjusted on the ME-25 itself). To adjust the
volume of a guitar, use the expression pedal or adjust other volume
related parameters.
To monitor the sound being input, first lower
the volume all the way using your computer’s software. Then, gradually
raise the level until you’ve obtained the amount of volume you want.

From the manual, it suggests that the signal level can't be adjusted in ME 25, but I can adjust it using the volume knob / the pedal; that's weird. I know to resolve this I can just increase the volume after recording, but does that mean I get more 'dirty' signal?
Did anybody try recording with this setup? ME 25 + audacity + headphone monitor?
How did you resolve this?
Increase the volume after recording? Withstand the painful volume in your headphone monitor? Or another way?

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