Premier Rock Forum

Anyone on this great forum have an MCI console that they love talking about? If so, I just bought one and am wiring it up. I wired a cd player through the tape 3 outs to pass some signal through the channels. I patched the tape outs ("From Tape 3") to the channel line inputs ("To Channel Line Inputs") and can’t get the signal into the 2 mix stereo bus. I can only hear the signal if I solo the channel out through the pfl or channel or bus solos, and it doesn’t show up on the L and R meters. I can see it on the bus VUs, so I know it’s there. If I select tape 3 on the monitor module I can hear the signal coming in and it reads on the master VUs and the mono mix.

On the monitor module, I have the master fader up and the 2 mix selected. The master Vca fader is up. On the channel strip, i have the direct switch enabled (and I also tried the bus options) and have both the rotary knob and the fader and have switched between the two. I have tried monitoring in both tape and line mode. I have the VCA automation. I have tried soloing and unsoling the channel and messing with the groups and had no luck.

Am I forgetting anything or do I have a problem in the master module? I haven't been able to reach the dude I bought the board from, so any help would be much appreciated!

Nevermind. Figured it out. Faulty solo switch on a send return.

Sorry I couldn't help you there. I've never used one of those.

You have a sony, right? Have you modded it with the Hardy pres?

I bought 2 Hardy preamps for it. They are great. Ten times better than the stock mic pres. I'm making one with a Lundahl transformer soon. Hopefully that will go well.