Input Monitoring Volumes

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2011/09/23 16:26:18 (permalink)

Input Monitoring Volumes

Searched around here and other places and haven't found an answer to this, hope someone here has some insight.
Using X1 with an E-mu 1616 pci card hooked up to a Behringer ADA8000. My problem is with the volumes via the ADA. The mic pres on the ADA are almost all the way down and I still here sound on that channel. .ie. the hi hat mic is a condenser with phantom supplied via the ada and I have the trim all the way down and the signal is still very healthy.
Also, if I mute the adat channels in patchmix and then choose input monitoring within sonar, the low volume difference plus the latency imake input monitoring unusable.
I've used this setup for sometime with differing results and never really honed it in. Possibly I've set something whacky!!
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!
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    Re:Input Monitoring Volumes 2011/09/23 16:47:24 (permalink)
    Does any of the hardware have a headphone out or a line out for monitoring? That would give you low latency monitoring.  If you need the monitoring from X1 because of FX there some delay is bound to happen.

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    Re:Input Monitoring Volumes 2011/09/23 17:04:18 (permalink)
    Well, yeah, I can hear everything but the levels via input monitoring are soft and direct off the emu they are loud. Can't figure how to match the levels.
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    Re:Input Monitoring Volumes 2011/09/23 17:06:59 (permalink)
    Where are the record meters? Are they showing a low signal?

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    Re:Input Monitoring Volumes 2011/09/23 22:46:08 (permalink)
    Not really, I can control that with the sonar faders.
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    Re:Input Monitoring Volumes 2011/09/23 23:03:20 (permalink)
    drumr


    Not really, I can control that with the sonar faders.


    No you can't. Not while recording. Unless you mean something else. If you mean you use the faders to raise the level for monitoring that would work but it has no effect on the recorded file. Level is controlled from the hardware for recording. Sonar simply shows what that level is.

    I would take a long look at your signal chain; making sure that levels are set right at each stage.

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