I finally got my hands on a comp, ai, monitors and cubase 5 daw today, for very cheap. Good for me. My very first outfit.
Where I bought it, it was set up and working flawlessly. Loud monitors, good signal, ect.
I set it up here at the house and there are issues.
For starters, everything is working, but the input signal, as well as the out put signal through the monitors are very, very quiet. It is even barely audible through my headphones.
The input signals are only reaching -30 dbhu on the mixers. Phantom power is on. Everything should be working smoothly.
I have to turn the master fader all the way up to get it to reach a maximum of -18dbhu. Which is crazy.
But here is the other thing, when I turn the gain all the way up to get a louder signal it clips. And even though the audio is so very faint on the playback, you can still hear distortion from the clipping. ???
The mics are fine. I have two I've tried, and they were working perfectly last night on an old tascam recorder I have. The whole setup was in perfect order before I brought it home.
One more thing, even the visual of the audio tracks (squiggly lines representing audio on the daw) are very very small. Just tiny little blips.
why is my signal so low?
Where I bought it, it was set up and working flawlessly. Loud monitors, good signal, ect.
I set it up here at the house and there are issues.
For starters, everything is working, but the input signal, as well as the out put signal through the monitors are very, very quiet. It is even barely audible through my headphones.
The input signals are only reaching -30 dbhu on the mixers. Phantom power is on. Everything should be working smoothly.
I have to turn the master fader all the way up to get it to reach a maximum of -18dbhu. Which is crazy.
But here is the other thing, when I turn the gain all the way up to get a louder signal it clips. And even though the audio is so very faint on the playback, you can still hear distortion from the clipping. ???
The mics are fine. I have two I've tried, and they were working perfectly last night on an old tascam recorder I have. The whole setup was in perfect order before I brought it home.
One more thing, even the visual of the audio tracks (squiggly lines representing audio on the daw) are very very small. Just tiny little blips.
why is my signal so low?