[TomParticipant]

Trim is set at 0

If the input and master faders are set at 0, the preamp must be set to +60 (or very close to it) to get a normal signal peaking close to 0 on the meters.

Does anyone know from experience what the usual preamp setting is for a dynamic microphone?

I was hoping there might be a hidden mic/line setting that was toggled wrong?
(It almost seems like there is something dropping the mic signal before it gets to the preamp)

Tom

[TomParticipant]

Thanks to the both of you for the sanity check.

This is the same across all inputs, and the preamp must be set at +60 (Full) to get be able to operate around the 0 fader position. (I believe 12 oclock on the preamp gain is +30)
Most mics are the RE16 used as interview/discussion use with handheld microphones, so no more than about 6 inches away.
One mic is a Shure MC412 podium mount(phantom powered condenser) and this is run around +54.

I was wondering if there was some system wide input level setting I was missing? (It is as if we are plugged into a line level input) The system has been operating like this from the time it was installed more than a year ago and this has been accepted as “just the way it works”.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Tom

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