On Sat, 27 Aug 2016, at 01:46, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 01:15:42 +0200 > William Light <wrl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Unrelated, but consider replacing the tubes in that MPA. I swapped the > > stock (unbranded) tubes in mine with a set of JJ 12AX7 and it improved > > the sound markedly. Cheap upgrade, too: the JJ tubes ran me about €12 > > apiece. > > Thanks. Will consider it. > > Are the VU meters supposed to move ? I mean, I use an AT2050, phantom > power switched on, everything else normal, and with an acoustic guitar, > although the sound is OK I find, the VU meters do not move. Much less > the 'tube' meters. I can make them move if I sing gvery close to the > mic. Also, with the 1010LT card I set the output (at the back) at > -10dBV. I assume the jumpers ont he 10101LT are at the default > position. I run the tubes in high-voltage mode all the time and generally crank the gain up until whatever I'm recording is just saturating. Even then, the VU meters are so slow that I barely notice them unless I'm doing a lot of really steady tones. For something like acoustic guitar, the meters not moving sounds just about right. Can always turn the gain up. ;) -w > > On the subject of the audio interfaces, I've been having an excellent > > time with an RME Multiface + the HDSP PCI card. Can be had on ebay > > for a couple hundred and well worth it. It's getting on there in > > years, but it's aged wonderfully, and it has 8 channels of ADAT > > optical i/o if you want to add more channels in the future (which I > > did). > > Thanks, will read about it. > > Cheers. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
