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I hooked up my minimax asb this weekend, and i noticed that minimax has a much lower input signal than my other synths connected to my mixer. I use it via my balanced XLR input, and i have to gain at least 9db to compete with my other synths. I put the volume all up, and whatever preset i choose, it remains the same low level signal. I also connected my virus c to the same XLR input, but everything is normal, so it has nothing to do with XLR connection. It is not really a problem since i can always crank the volume up with the gain button in the mixer, but i was wondering if this is normal.

I use the Prodyssey and B4000 for their hot I/O's.

I was using the software versions and they sound great, but I route these to a rotary cabinet directly because of their strong signal.

I know that to emulate certain Oscillators, like JBowen's CEM for example, I have to crank those as high as possible, and drop the volume of MM Osc's to balance the presets output. Maybe CW / SC used a similar high quality Oscillator for the MiniMax that causes the loss of outputted db's.

As long as it's FAT right?

Didn;t you do that cool Maiden Voyage mp3 using the MiniMax's I/O's?

If so, it sounded great to me.

Hey Jimmy,

Nope, Maiden Voyage wasnt done by me. I think i have it somewhere over here, ill check it out in a minute.

Actually there is no quality loss of the signal though. But i thought that if the minimax asb had balanced outputs, it would be equally in volume than my virus for example, but like i said, its not really a problem as i can always crank up the gain pot.

But youre right, it still sounds FAT

greetz

I'm fairly certain all the ASBs have unbalanced IO (which would, of course, explain everything!)

Cheers,

Chris

chriskorff wrote:I'm fairly certain all the ASBs have unbalanced IO (which would, of course, explain everything!)

That surely explains a lot!

I checked the manual this afternoon, and it said in the specificiations that the IO's were " assymmetric" , thus probably meaning unbalanced.

thanks

Most synths have unbalanced I/Os AFAIK. I'm surprised the Virus has balanced outs!

Try using an unbalanced connection and see what happens.