Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

Dear CS-80 friends,

while tuning my CS-80 according to Yamaha´s adjustment procedure I
wonder about the VCA #4 gain value (step 4 on page 15). This VCA sets
the individual output level of each Voiceboard.

According to the manual it should be adjusted with VR14 to 80mV pp.

This is ridicoulus low and my CS-80 came with a much higher level on
each card, so I am not sure if the value in the manual is correct.

As I understand, increasing the output level of each card would result
into a better S/N ratio but could overload the following output stages
(PRA, Effect section etc.) if set too high, especially when playing 8
voices together.

Has anybody figured out already if those 80mV are accurate or if it is
recommended to adjust to a higher value here? To my feeling something
between 200 and 400mV should be more useful,

Thanks, Gregor