mjbphotos
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I've got a Mackie Big Knob positioned handily on my desk , outputs from my Scarlett 8i6 to it, then monitors hooked up to the BK, all via balanced cables.
I had used this previously to switch between 2 sets of speakers (I also had 2 computers, and used a switch to do that, so I only needed one keyboard and mouse that way). With my new place, I no longer needed the BK (only 1 set of monitors), so set it aside.
When I started doing a lot of Zoom music events, I found it was useful to put the BK close at hand for volume adjustment and muting when I play (to prevent Zoom sound issues).
Everything was fine, but I noticed I was sometimes cranking the BK volume all the way up when some people in Zoom meetings were particularly low volume, so I turned up the volume control on the 8i6 a little.
The other day, when I was 'mastering' some mixes, to get the overall volumes up, I heard distortion on some of the peaks that were getting very minor limiting.
Listening with headphones plugged into the 8i6, I didn't hear the distortion. Turning down the volume control on the 8i6 seems to have removed the distortion (but I crank the BK knob up).
So... is the 8i6 overdriving the inputs on the Big Knob? As its a passive (no power) device, I would not think that would be an issue.
I had used this previously to switch between 2 sets of speakers (I also had 2 computers, and used a switch to do that, so I only needed one keyboard and mouse that way). With my new place, I no longer needed the BK (only 1 set of monitors), so set it aside.
When I started doing a lot of Zoom music events, I found it was useful to put the BK close at hand for volume adjustment and muting when I play (to prevent Zoom sound issues).
Everything was fine, but I noticed I was sometimes cranking the BK volume all the way up when some people in Zoom meetings were particularly low volume, so I turned up the volume control on the 8i6 a little.
The other day, when I was 'mastering' some mixes, to get the overall volumes up, I heard distortion on some of the peaks that were getting very minor limiting.
Listening with headphones plugged into the 8i6, I didn't hear the distortion. Turning down the volume control on the 8i6 seems to have removed the distortion (but I crank the BK knob up).
So... is the 8i6 overdriving the inputs on the Big Knob? As its a passive (no power) device, I would not think that would be an issue.