So loud!
For years I’ve run all audio through an M-Audio firewire solo that ran the speakers and headphones. Recently I’ve been having trouble with plugging everything into it so I decided to run everything through a Behringer rack mixer I’ve got instead. So after switching it all over I put on some music on my PC and discovered that it’s incredibly loud!
The Behringer mixer has these stepped volume controls and I found I had three usable steps of volume: off, quiet and loud. The next step being deafening! So I’ve turned down the gain on the monitors and it’s a bit better, I’ve got 5 or 6 usable steps now (the knobs have 24 steps), but the output level meter on the mixer’s showing that my output’s peaking at -24dB… (It goes up to +12.)
This is all just crazy. I’m in a world of confusion. I don’t know what any of it means!
Also the headphone output is incredibly loud!
On the plus side I can now run music through my effects unit and pretend I’m listening to it in a warehouse or something.
