I am sorry if I mislead anyone by my prior response. I initially
thought that the poster could not achieve 4 bars or 5 bars on the ALC
meter. But after several emails, I realized that he was skipping from 3
bars to 5 bars with slight changes in the LINE IN gain.
Normally, I recommend that the soundcard sliders be set to 50 to 75% of
full scale, but that is actually soundcard dependent - and may be Mac
and Windows dependent as well.
Perhaps a better statement is to set the K3S (or K3) LINE IN gain for
about mid-scale and then adjust the soundcard sliders to produce the 4
ALC bars with the 5th one flashing.
Final fine adjustments can then be made with the K3S LINE IN gain which
will have a finer resolution at mid-scale than at extremely low or high
settings.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 3/20/2017 7:45 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
I had exactly this problem with my K3 and Mac. I reduced the output
level from the Mac using the Sound system control panel, which gave me
finer control at the K3. If you run Windows or Linux the control will
have a different name.
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