ditto what damon said, an xlr>coax is money well spent. and you can either calibrate the v2 to the mme, or just turn the screwpots all the way down, and just run the v2 wherever you want it. I believe nominal gain on the mme is like 11 db line in with the pots all the way down, so you'll probably generally be running the v2 at like 30 or so. However, when I called apogee, they were unable to tell me, or too lazy to look up, what the nominal gain was line-in.