[cleantone]

well yesterday I had a drummer lined up to "play" with some comparisons and whatnot. He thought we were going to work in the day and I thought at night. He was booked to track for an ex band mates record last night. By the time we spoke it was too late to get together early. I know the other studio owner so we ended up all going over. Everyone was running late but it was pretty casual. I miced his kit.

1. kick (beta52)
2. snare (sm57)
3. hat (sm81)
4. rack (e604)
5. floor (e602)
6. oh (km184)
7. oh (km184)
8. room (u87)

It took longer to get going than it should have to get ready to roll. It was exactly what I was fearing. Put the 8 channels into the 7510. I had the unit for two day and had only fired it up and tested that the preamps on all channels worked. This was with a vocal mic on my voice.

So I start getting levels and low and behold the unit can't take the input gain. The overheads sounded good but I don't know if they would when he played loudly.

Since we were already running late and this was a session that had a goal, we went to some of his preamps and I didn't get to trouble shoot. I actually did pull the jumper out of the rack tom channel and it seemed to have no effect. I guess I need to try some resisters now.

edit: I actually now think that I pulled the jumper out for pins 7-8 that I thought would be effect module input A when in fact it effects B. CRAP. I hope that does the trick.