Hi everyone. I've recently bought a second hand Apogee mini me which i find a very fine piece of harwdware except for the problem i've been facing lately. I'm using the onboard mic pre-amps with the following LD mics: AT4050, KSM44, GT66, C414BULS and the Mini Me pre-amps clip before any over indication in the meters and maybe a couple of dBs before reaching 0dbfs (soft limit and compression curve 2 engaged). So recording turns into a very painful practice as i can't actually predict when the preamp in going to clip or distort. This happened recording not very loud sources (vocals mostly)... so i can't imagine the mini me handling loud sources such as percussion or amps.
There's the option to pad the inputs by 18dbs but it requires to open the unit and to permanently switch 4 sets of jumpers, which isn't exactly handy.
Do you think this is a normal behavior for a relatively expensive box like this? What can i loose using the lower gain settting? Will it be wiser to use mics level attenuation?
Thanx in advance for your help.
There's the option to pad the inputs by 18dbs but it requires to open the unit and to permanently switch 4 sets of jumpers, which isn't exactly handy.
Do you think this is a normal behavior for a relatively expensive box like this? What can i loose using the lower gain settting? Will it be wiser to use mics level attenuation?
Thanx in advance for your help.