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.
Quote from: NOLAfishwater on October 11, 2007, 07:49:40 PM
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?
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...
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.
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.
Patched my JB3 off several boards many a times, have always set gain at 0, never had probs.
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.