Help with signal out from PA Head

[Bill Myrick]

Our church has a Peavey 600 XR power head and we recently purchased a new tape recorder deck and I tried it by running the signal from the "Tape Out" RCA jack in front to the deck and the music was plenty loud on the tape but the sermon or speaking portion was a little too low even with the tape out button wide open. I need maybe 25% more signal and I realize I can get a lot more by splitting one of the Speaker Outs in back but was afraid it might be too hot for the deck. Any suggestions please ? Thanks, Bill Myrick

[Jay Fagerlie]

I am assuming that the 'speaking' is going through the pa also....
Turn up the mic gain on the 'speaking' channel and turn down the master. This will increase the 'speaking' part in relation to the 'music' part....you may have to adjust the 'music' part also to bring it down closer the the 'speaking' part.
I hope this helps

Jay

[Larry Clark]

Bill, Do not go out of the speaker outputs of your PA head into the record input of your tape deck. You will definately do damage to your recorder.

[John Floyd]

Again What LArry said, do not connect the recorder to the speaker ouputs, it will no doubt be distorted on the recording, and either blow the recorder input amp, the Pa Solid state power amp and PA Speakers and possibly all of the above.

This is a big No No!

[Ray Minich]

Yup, it'll be too hot for the deck alright, by maybe about 69 volts? Depends on what the volage rails are for the output amp. Could be 35 or 70 volt rails.

[Bill Terry]

If you're not using the Monitor send you can buy a 1/4" to RCA Adapter and use the channel monitor sends to create an independent recording mix (no channel EQ though).

I think some of the XR-600s even have a "Reverb to Monitor" knob so you could blend reverb to the monitor signal going to tape.

[Bill Myrick]

Bill -- I'm not using monitors and never thought of that -- I'll look into it ---thanks.