« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2010, 01:38:27 PM »
How much gain did you have on the Aerco? Maybe it was distorting at that stage? Would it be possible to go from the 1/8 out to a separate deck, or monitor with headphones?
Also, check your cables. The wiring is different for the analog in's than standard. Basically you have to switch the pin 2 and 3 on the XLR-M plug going into the AD2K+. This sucks because I just had tgakidis make me a set of cables to go from the V3 > AD2K+, and I forgot to tell him about the polarity inversion!
Ran last night and for the first time ever (had the unit for over a year), I had lots of distortion/clipping yet the levels on the ad2k and the bit bucket never went over. Don't think I moved the input level of the ad2k but it was set at +22. the aerco was on it's highest gain setting. Would moving the input level to +18 take care of the problem? The levels looked good on the gear, but at home I could hear distortion, which has never happened before.
Is there any difference in sound quality at +20 or +18? also the manual says (I just looked) to use the +14 setting for unbalanced inputs. Should I be using this? Would the sound quality take a hit doing so?
Thx in advance for any help, advice or insight. I have another opportunity to record tonight, so I would like to get this setting thing hammered out...
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