HELP! HD24 APPEARS To Be Seeing A Low Input

[stevieb]

Please answer as quickly as possible. We should know this, perhaps, but we are approaching the "heat of battle," and a little problem appears to have popped up.

Signal chain is acoustic drums> mic>cable>stage snake>Studiomaster Mixdown 8 Board>TRS-TRS recording snake>HD24.

All is well to board: levels adjusted at board to not clip in pre-amps, nor to send too hot a signal to HD24. Meter bridge on board reading a right-level signal, BUT meters on HD24 reading a too-low signal- thry are reading to about a -9, rather than into the yellow zone we would like to see them go. We have not recorded anything yet, but first, I'd like to know if this is normal? David remembers he experienced this before, and the results were acceptable, but we are stressing about this a bit, as we don't want any surprises later.

Questions are:

1. Is this normal? For the HD24 meters to lead us to believe a low-level signal is going tothe HD24?

2. IS an acceptable signal present at the HD24- i.e. when we record, will the signal-to-noise level be acceptable?

3. Is there any way to adjust this, INSIDE the HD24? I mean, is it possible to call up some page on the HD24 screen, and adjust the level the HD24 "accepts?" I know all about adjusting the signal BEFORE it gets to the HD24 (we are using an analog board, so no pages to call up there, no hocus-pocus virtual level controls, etc.)

PLEASE answer as soon as possible. Thanks. Ever so much

 

[RRuskin]

Please answer as quickly as possible. We should know this, perhaps, but we are approaching the "heat of battle," and a little problem appears to have popped up.

Signal chain is acoustic drums> mic>cable>stage snake>Studiomaster Mixdown 8 Board>TRS-TRS recording snake>HD24.

All is well to board: levels adjusted at board to not clip in pre-amps, nor to send too hot a signal to HD24. Meter bridge on board reading a right-level signal, BUT meters on HD24 reading a too-low signal- thry are reading to about a -9, rather than into the yellow zone we would like to see them go. We have not recorded anything yet, but first, I'd like to know if this is normal? David remembers he experienced this before, and the results were acceptable, but we are stressing about this a bit, as we don't want any surprises later.



Questions are:

1. Is this normal? For the HD24 meters to lead us to believe a low-level signal is going tothe HD24?

2. IS an acceptable signal present at the HD24- i.e. when we record, will the signal-to-noise level be acceptable?

3. Is there any way to adjust this, INSIDE the HD24? I mean, is it possible to call up some page on the HD24 screen, and adjust the level the HD24 "accepts?" I know all about adjusting the signal BEFORE it gets to the HD24 (we are using an analog board, so no pages to call up there, no hocus-pocus virtual level controls, etc.)

PLEASE answer as soon as possible. Thanks. Ever so much

-9 on the Alesis is above the analog 0 coming off your board. Everything is working properly but your understanding of analog vs digital levels and metering of same.