Taperssection.com
Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: shroominhumpy on February 29, 2004, 10:46:46 PM
-
I have C1000s running into a Mixpad 4. I taped Guster last night and got some pretty wicked distortion. I really just put this rig together and have had very very very little practice with it. I had my preamps running as hot as they could. 50 db of gain. Can you overload the preamps? I think this is what I may have done. I am posting a short sample to give an idea of what I mean. The max SPL on these mics is able 130 db so I do not think it is the mics themselves. Thanks. Any input is appreciated. Thank you all so much for being such a helpful community.
Jason
-
i always ran the levels as follows:
1st gain: 20db (this is all memory i could be wrong)
2nd gain: just 0db
3rd gain: just under 0db
d8 level: just so it was under 0db's on the level meter
i recommend running phantom power with the mixpad. Just gives you a better understanding of where your levels are at.
Ill send you some tapes of differenet level settings.
-
Did you listen to the clip? Do you think that is what happend... What do you mean by first gain, second gain, third gain? I am assuming this
1st gain=mic trim
2nd gain=channel gain
3rd gain=main level
-
Did you listen to the clip? Do you think that is what happend... What do you mean by first gain, second gain, third gain? I am assuming this
1st gain=mic trim
2nd gain=channel gain
3rd gain=main level
yes thats correct