Delta 1010LT + Sennheiser 609 - having problems with input levels

[ticker]

Hi all, I ran a few searches in an attempt to avoid what has probably already been posted. Maybe I have given up to quickly, but I am going to go ahead and ask anyway.

I have a Sennheiser e609, a Delta 1010LT, a Fender Blues Jr., and several effects. The amp dialed in at volume 3 is plenty loud for me and the tone is just right for my little home recording tastes. I'm using an XLR jack on the Delta card and first tried setting the input slider just in the middle. Recorded a few minutes of jam and played it back in my recording software. The levels were not right and I heard the horrible static and such on playback. So I decided to try it with the input level all the way down. A little better, but still facing the same problems. I have the mic literally hanging off the amp so that the it is resting on the protective cover. I did try moving it out several inches but it only killed the tone and produced a weaker signal which still made lots of unwanted 'you have too much signal' noise. I have various other equips going through the card. Drum machine, moog, nord, etc. I've got them all working just fine.

I did find some posts about changing jumper settings but unfortunately I do not understand how that affects the signal or whether or not it will help. If anyone can offer advice I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[fizbin]

Well, you need a preamp. You should get a decent one, but that 1010LT has a built in one if you set the jumper correctly on the card and plug into the XLR ins. I have not used that preamp, but I'm guessing its not going to be good. The bottom line is that you are probably tracking without a preamp.

Until you get a decent preamp, pull out the Delta card and look at the Delta manual for proper jumper settings so that the XLR ins work with the built in preamp. If you do not have the manual, I'm sure you can get a pdf version of it at the M-Audio web site.

 

[spankenstein]

Until you get a decent preamp, pull out the Delta card and look at the Delta manual for proper jumper settings so that the XLR ins work with the built in preamp. If you do not have the manual, I'm sure you can get a pdf version of it at the M-Audio web site.

The preamps are good (to my ears) on the 1010LT but VERY HOT. You will definitely need to change teh jumper to the lower mic pre setting and you will probably have th input fader most of the way down before you get a usable signal. I eventually just switched tehm to line level and ran from my mixer direc outs into them but they were definitely good when you had a correct level.