Topic: Patching w/ JB3

[NOLAfishwater]

I am heading to a venue tonight where the sound engineer has offered me a patch. I do have 1/4 TRS male to 1/8 mini and was wondering if the master mix signal coming from the board is going to be too hot for the JB3. If you have a JB3 what setting do you use? Thanks in advance for your input.

[Roving Sign]

I am heading to a venue tonight where the sound engineer has offered me a patch. I do have 1/4 TRS male to 1/8 mini and was wondering if the master mix signal coming from the board is going to be too hot for the JB3. If you have a JB3 what setting do you use? Thanks in advance for your input.

I always use the default 0db setting. I run mine off my Yamaha mixers RCA outs - and it seems I can use quite a bit of gain.

Do you know the specifics of the board?

[SmokinJoe]

I found board outputs to be all over the place... some are hot as hell, some are not.  I've run line-in to my R-09 anywhere from 6 to 30 on a 0-30 scale, where 8 is generally considered unity gain (similar to your 0 gain I would guess).  But most of the time they are pretty hot...

[J.Maye]

All depends on the board. Ive patched my JB3 into several boards and while none of them have ever been too quiet, a few have brickwalled the recorder and there was nothing I could do about it.

Start @ 0 gain, and best of luck.

[NOLAfishwater]

Thanks for the quick response. I will leave it at 0 db and run it line in via the line/optical in. Just got this JB3 and still learning all the ins and outs. Hopefully I should pull a good clean recording. I am pretty sure the board is bout 2 years old. The engineer let me listen to his mix via headphones a couple of nights ago, and he agreed to give me master mix patch. I am fired up.

[gtalife]

Patched my JB3 off several boards many a times, have always set gain at 0, never had probs.

[NOLAfishwater]

1st Patch was successful. George Porter Jr, Russell Batiste, and a guest on keys at the Maple Leaf in NOLA. It clipped a few times on the high end. My thought is that there was a mic on stage that was clipping. I think it was the one on the keyboardists amp. Overall I am very happy with the mix. Next time I think I will run XLR out through the V3 and then into the JB3. thanks for all your input guys.