WATYF
...happier than you.
OK.. I just picked up a Focusrite Platinum Penta mic pre/compressor, and I have a question.
This is a pretty straight forward setup, so I'm at a loss for why this is happening... it's prolly something obvious that will make me look like a complete retard... but oh well.
I plug the mic (MC012) into the Penta and turn on phantom power... I take the left (mono) out from the Penta and run it into the input on my digi001.
I start trying to get a level... but the meters on the Penta are barely moving... they don't even register unless I tap on the mic. So I turn the gain up real high... They still don't move much at all. But when I listen to the track in Pro Tools, it's nice and loud... in fact... it was feeding-back when I first record-enabled the track because I had the gain on the pre up so high... so I lower the gain on the Penta until the levels in PT are fine.
so my question is... How come I am getting plenty of level into PT, and it's nice and loud and sounds just fine, but the LED levels on the Penta itself barely move at all? (the first LED will light up sometimes if I strum real hard. ) And the only way to get the levels to move even a decent amount is to turn the gain up so high that it totally peaks in PT!
what's up with that?
WATYF
This is a pretty straight forward setup, so I'm at a loss for why this is happening... it's prolly something obvious that will make me look like a complete retard... but oh well.
I plug the mic (MC012) into the Penta and turn on phantom power... I take the left (mono) out from the Penta and run it into the input on my digi001.
I start trying to get a level... but the meters on the Penta are barely moving... they don't even register unless I tap on the mic. So I turn the gain up real high... They still don't move much at all. But when I listen to the track in Pro Tools, it's nice and loud... in fact... it was feeding-back when I first record-enabled the track because I had the gain on the pre up so high... so I lower the gain on the Penta until the levels in PT are fine.
so my question is... How come I am getting plenty of level into PT, and it's nice and loud and sounds just fine, but the LED levels on the Penta itself barely move at all? (the first LED will light up sometimes if I strum real hard. ) And the only way to get the levels to move even a decent amount is to turn the gain up so high that it totally peaks in PT!
what's up with that?
WATYF