Not a dumb question. Find out what unity gain is on your mixer and the other stuff with preamps. It's probably 50% (one volt in = one volt out). I have my stuff wired unbalanced with the same gain settings as you. Anything else gives me more noise.
Clay
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "johnm400s911" <john.wright@...> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I recently did some reconfiguring with keyboards. This may be a dumb question, but I'm just not sure about best way to handle. I run my Mellotron through an MXR Eq, Alesis Nanoverb, Behringer mixer, and then to amplifier. At each point, there is volume control and in the case of the mixer, I have channel volume, gain, master volume, plus the amp has both channel volume and master. Is there a rule of thumb on how to set all these volume controls? Presently, Tron is at 25% and all else is at 50%. Then, I just use master volume on the amp for overall loudness. Just wondering what some of you do.
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> Regards,
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> John, #911
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