Next Question I have is:
Is there a pad or attenuation in the deck somewhere? I don't think so but I'm just asking.
The maiden voyage was last Friday at the Wood Brothers at the McDonald here in Eugene. I was 7 th row dead center head high with my Milab DC 196's NOS & VM 44's DIN, no preamps just direct into the F8. I usually don't need to or like to run the pads on the mics, but at this show which was not really that loud I had the gain knobs at about 9:00 for both sets of milabs. It seemed low and made the knobs a bit sensitive to movements.
I'll be going to see Lettuce this Saturday and will like run the same set up , and I suppose I'll flip the -12 and -10 pads on each set of mics, though previously I've only need to do this way FOB at a few really loud shows.
Any ideas or suggestions would be great.
PS I like the sound and ran one of my Naztec power bank - at 12 it didn't eve seem to drain the power at all, that their set was only a bit longer than 90 minutes.
thanks in advance
--ian