New mixer help!

[talio93]

Hey guys,

I just bought a Vestax PMC-25 off of ebay, everythings about seems to work fine. Although, what I did notice was that the Master Output at the back was a TRS 1/4" jack. So I got 2 RCA -> TRS 1/4" adaptors so that I could play through my speakers...turned it on, opened TORQ, loaded a track..and immediately I get an incredibly distorted sound...the track plays but its really muffled and sounds like shit!

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?!

[ferretrock]

Sounds to me like you've plugged your torq into the phono ins.

[onpoint]

^ this.

congrats on finding the mixer you seem to have been hunting down for a while!

[talio93]

I'm using TT's though...should I still be plugging into the Line?

[onpoint]

Yes because torq is a digital input.

TT rca's go into torq Input, torq rca's go into line inputs. Then switch the switch at the top from Phono to line 1/2 and line 3/4 (depending on which input you plugged it into.

[talio93]

Ahhhh...thanks! All good now... although it seems to redline pretty easily even with the gains turned down.. should i be worried about that?

[pEAkeR_hAT]

No it shouldn't, what turntables do u have ? If u have stantons, check that they are on digital mode, not phono mode, there is a litte switch next to the power button

[talio93]

technics 1200's...when i switch to program mode it redlines and when its on master it barely shows signal...but if you say i shouldnt be worried then I'll just leave it

[onpoint]

When I had my PMC-250 I had to turn the gain up to about 11/12 o'clock for levels to be all good, never did it redline though. Check the settings but it shouldn't be redlining just from connecting torq.

[ferretrock]

Torq might be set up to be too high gain on its outputs too..?

[Bracko]

I'd tend to agree with ferret. check the full signal path before blaming the mixer.

PMC 25 is a great mixer, enjoy.