Why no silence when volume knob turned down?

Yes, I know this must be obvious. I plugged my Les Paul directly into channel one, flipped up the Hi-Z and saw I had too much gain in Sonar. I turned the MR816 channel one knob all the way down and I am still getting a full signal to my DAW. I thought this knob was a pre for channel one? The signal does increase as I turn the knob up, but why is there any signal at all being received by the DAW when that knob is all the way down?

I did RTFM and this forum but couldn’t find it (the answer’s too obvious I suppose). I’m bracing myself for the “Duh” answer so go ahead and lay it on me.

Thanks for your time. Peter

Hello Peter,


The short story: the “gain” knob is not the same as a “volume” knob.

Perhaps you should enable the “PAD” function for that channel on the MR816.

Cheers,

Chris

I’ll look into that and try to make sense of it.

Thanks for your response.

Peter