How much does it hiss if you have say some tracks of audio through it and you have to turn it down so it does not blow your ears out. I am just saying this coz I have had an engineer in my studio turn up my master and say, "Gee thats a noisy console", then I hit play and its like, "fu@K thats loud". True signal to noise. All analog has some noise, agreed it should still be reasonable.
Just to make things clear, you have every channel muted, all aux channel sends turned off, the bus masters down, and the record outs (not monitor outs) are noisy? And its audio hiss not a digital ground loop somewhere?
Alan.
Alan - yes, the record main outs are noisier than the monitor outs. Its audio hiss as far as I can tell.
Here's an interesting observation though - with the master fader up producing noise, I dime all 24 inline monitors and it does not make any noticeable increase in noise, which is interesting since we know the monitors feed the master section. Also, I dime the FX returns, and again, no noticeable increase in noise.
However, if I increase the monitor level on the groups, and raise the group fader, it does add to the noise (granted, I dime the monitors here also)
I'm going to do more level setting and see what I can achieve.
~Mike