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Started October 4th, 2009 · 3 replies · Latest reply by RHumphries 15 years, 1 month ago
My setup:
Behringer B-2 condenser mic out via XLR to Yamaha MG102C
Out from mixer via send and return cable to Behringer MDX2600 Composer Pro XL
Out via stereo out to line in of my Macbook
I just got a new mixer, so I may be overlooking something really simple. Bear with me.
Manual for the mixer:
http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/pa/english/mixers/mg82cx_en_om.pdf
As you can see, I can send out to an external processor two ways, one being via the insert jack and the other being via aux send/return. I initially had it hooked up via the aux send and return jacks as that's the way I had to do it on my old mixer, but I wasn't getting the compressor in the signal chain when I did that, and someone I know who has a similar mixer also told me that wasn't the right way to do it, and that I had to do it via the insert jack. Now I'm getting a great quality sound, the compressor's in the signal chain the way it should be, but my levels are wayyyyy low. Someone in one of my classes thought that maybe I'd accidentally switched which ends went into the input/output on my compressor, but when I switched them around that didn't make a difference either. I played around with everything until I pinpointed the problem being when I connected/disconnected my send and return cable from the insert jack on the mixer. The levels will be fine when it's not plugged in, and then the instant I plug it in the levels go way down. Any ideas what's going on here? I do VOs for a living and I reeeeally need to get this figured out so I can start recording again.
Well I can't quite visualize what you have plugged in where now, but I'm thinking this is a phase problem. It's also in the manual on page 10: "The signal output from the INSERT jacks is reverse-phased". I don't know how/why/what, but it seems somewhere you're adding the normal phase and a reverse phase together, which possibly results in extremely low levels.
Three possibilities that I can see; the first being the most likely:
1. Is the output of the compressor set too low?
2. Are you sure you have the insert cable going to the correct inputs and outputs of the compressor?
3. Did you try changing the setting of the operating level switch?
I hope this helps.
-Richard