Having a strange problem with my mixer..

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Having a strange problem with my mixer..

So i’m not sure if my mixer has somehow broke or something but,

All of sudden, the volume of everything I play through it has really decreased… Traktor, vinyl, when I hook my iPhone up to a channel via Aux lead, (this was the worse), I had phone volume up, actually had the channel fader all the way up, had the channel level knob/gain on like 3/4 o’clock, and the master volume knob on about 3’oclock. And it wasn’t loud.. yeah, too loud to play at 1am, but no where near as loud as it should be for the knobs that high…

For DJing with Traktor, I have to put the Xone 92 master volume knob (I’m using Mix 1) on about 2/3o’clock, and the channel gain knobs on anything from 1 to 4o’clock.. Again, I never used to have them up this high. This is also with each of the channels low, mid and high EQ knobs turned up past 12, which I don’t normally have, unless it’s a bad quality track.

I normally have all knobs on 12o’clock, to 2o’clock, and thats LOUD. So what has happened… I’ve played all different types of audio, youtube, itunes, traktor, it’s just all of a sudden become ‘not as loud’…!?

I have A&H Xone 92 mixer
KRK Rokit 8 monitors, which run from Master out 1 via XLR, to my monitors TRS inputs.

  1. I’m thinking it could either be, I need new leads, like phono cables for traktor.

  2. Need new speaker cables… But its funny how both would just brake, as the volume level is the same from both monitors.

  3. My mixer has bloody broken… Which i don’t understand how a mixer could break, and just become quieter all of a sudden…

I have checked monitor volume knob, all same…
Thoroughly looked over my mixer, all knobs are just how i normally have them..
Swapped a couple of RCA cables, like the one i use to record, with channel.deck A for example.. Still same…
I’ve tried playing records from my TT’s, quite anyway… but even more so…

I’m worried, confused, and don’t know what to do people… Any help would be nice. Maybe I could buy a whole new set of cables completely, but I can’t really afford atm to do that, and have that not even be the problem…

Thanks. If you need to know any more, just let me know

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Apologies for suggesting something obvious (I did this exact same thing before…) but does that 92 have a mic talkover/ducking switch? Something that lowers the master output whilst you talk on the mic.

I only say this as I had a similar thing happen about 12 years ago on an old Phonic mixer- I had brought it second-hand anyway and was on the verge of throwing it out when I discovered the mic talk-over switch was engaged and causing the massive volume drop- this was very early into my DJ days I might add!

Fingers crossed it is something simple.

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Hey man,

Well, yes it does have a MIC duck switch, but… I am using the MIC/RTN side of the mixer for my send and return ableton stuff, so one side of the MIC/RTN channel always has ‘duck’ switched on, as it needs it..

So I’m really not sure :disappointed:

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That is the problem switch from ‘Duck’ to ‘On’ and your volume problem should be fixed.

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Is there any way to switch the mixer from +4dbu to -10dbv? That’s from Pro level to consumer level. Maybe that got turned on somehow?

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The thing is, ‘Duck’ can not ‘stay’ on, on the xone 92. When i push the switch to ‘duck’ it releases as soon as i let go, so it can’t actually be accidentally left on that… well, not that know of anyway, when i push the switch to ‘On’ it stays in place..

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I really have no idea… I;ve checked, there just isn’t any switches on that shouldnt be, or anything… :disappointed:

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The xone:92 has different output options that cover those bases.
Mix 1 is +4dbu
Mix 2 is -2dbu
RCA out is -10dbv

I realized that after I posted my comment, I’m sorry. Have you looked at the volume on your speakers?

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If the meters look right with the input volume set high then it’s definitely the mixer and not the speakers.

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I’m using MIX 1 as my master out. XLR from 92, to TRS in my KRK’s. I’ve always had it this way, too.

An yes the speakers are as they always are, nothing has changed with them… It’s weird

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This is the thing, the meter is is amber, sometimes it even hits red, and the music isnt even THAT loud… So it’s as if, the mixer is recognizing the volume as loud as it would be with the gains on 3/4o’clock, but the volume is playing out as if the gains were on 11o’clock…

Eh, I don’t know what is going on

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I don’t know the gain staging of your mixer. Are the meters hitting where they normally would with you past setup and now they’re hitting hotter with the input gain turned up? What’s the master meter hitting at? This seems to point back to the “ducking” button as was mentioned earlier.

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Kind of… Well, at times, the meter level would be right on the top end of what’s recommended, nearly hitting red. The Xone 92 goes:

Green - Amber - Red

Sometimes it would be just hitting the red, but the volume isn’t actually (well, shouldn’t be0 loud enough to cause spike in the red…

So I’m having to crank up my gain knobs much more than normal, just to get a nice loud volume.. and my mixer hits the red, because i have tuned the gains up…

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And the ducking, can’t be the problem, as the xone 92 duck switch can not be kept on ‘duck’ you have to manually hold the switch. I always have duck set to ‘on’ for my ableton send return stuff.

I’ve tried pushing it to ‘duck’ and i can notice the volume lowering, but that is seperate to my issue :disappointed:

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Ah so pushing the switch up introduces the send/return and ‘ducks’ the level until you release it, but pushing it downwards switches the send/return on without ducking?

I’m sure you have probably already done this but for the sake of exhausting all possibilities have you set up your mixer with just one input source and outputted solely to speakers and tried that? I.e. have nothing else connected, nothing in the mic send/return and leave the ducking switches in their ‘neutral’ position etc.

I don’t suppose the 92 has a master reset or anything that would return it to factory settings?

From what you said about the sound output not corresponding to the meter levels it does sound like something could be at fault rather than being a setting issue- I hope I’m wrong though :disappointed:

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Yup, thats it

I haven’t tried that, no. So, JUst have the MIX 1 XLR mater out to my monitors, and then just plug say, one RCA cable for 1 turntable, and take all over leads out, and try that? Or even just have one RCA cable from my Audio 10 into one mixer channel?

I’ll try this now. And I’m not sure if there is factory reset button, really didn’t know that mixers had them… being analogue

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I’ve no idea if such a thing exists either, I was sure you could do it with some of the digital mixers but yes I was forgetting the 92 is analogue so not likely to be an option.

Certainly try the mixer with just a single input source- you want to try and isolate the problem with as few variables as possible!

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I’m going to try that, will isolate it as much as possible, will just try one day, and then noe traktor deck.

I’ll report back here once tried and tested

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Hey there,

sad that you have problems with that beautiful mixer!
this is probably not it but feels like you covered pretty much everything else in the thread.
Have you checked the back of your monitors?
Perhaps someone else has turned down the volume on the monitors (april 1st recently)

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I thought this as well, but OP did say …