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RME User Forum → FireWire & USB series → Babyface ProFS resetting automatically on input volume peaks ?
I am using my interface with an iPad and TotalMix on the iPad.
Each time my volume is peaking on input 1 (acoustic instrument mic) the Babyface Pro FS is resetting itself automatically.
Is there a way to prevent this to happen - safety setting ?
Thanks in advance
Can you do a test with input 2 ?
Same Mic, same instrument, same recording app etc., just connect the xlr cable to the other input and see if this reset still happen ?
What exactly is this reset doing ?
Is it a reset of the faders in Totalmix and the loudspeakers are silent suddenly ?
Same behaviour with input 2
The babyface is phili ally resetting (short power down and up)
A few seconds after this reset Totalmix rests with the “ iPad wheel” turning a short instant
Thanks
Philippe
Ouch !
What are your input gain settings ?
Did you try a total reset in Totalmix ? I recommend to do one.
Yes I did a total reset on totalmix
Y use phantom power and am on 25 for the gain
Not much left to try out...
May you have another mic ?
If you just lower the gain ?
Yeah I tried all that already,
I don’t understand what is happening.
I will try tomorrow with a mic which doesn’t require the phantom power just in case. But I need this phantom power.
I was thinking that I had missed some kind of safety protection but I hadn’t found anything about it.
Thanks for your kind help
What mic is this one that need phantom power ?
A small electret mic for clip at the trompet ?
Yes it is a SD System Mic that I use for my saxophones
But not a small electret
https://store.sdsystems.com/lcm85-for-w … ments.html
I see. it is a big electret one.
I highly recommend to do a test with another condenser mic.
Yes I will do it tomorrow, but I have been using this Mike extensively since more than five years in very different configurations (including with UCX) without any issue. I will try also feeding it with a battery in the preamp as it is an option.
I thank you again for your help and will let you know the results
So I tested it with a standard mic (shure beta 58), no Phantom power, and the result is the same. If the volume is peaking too much Babyface Pro FS is resetting ...
I tried with the pad and with a higher gain same result.
There is something than I don’t understand , is there a defined peak value ? Or is it a defect of my device ?
The only other thing that I have not tested is to put the device in standalone mode, currently it gets the current from the iPad. But I need the right adapter to try it
May you have a keyboard to make a line input test aswell ?
Would be interesting to see if every input has that issue...?
I think the peak value is defined by the hardware and firmware.
i never heard that a interface offers a manual setting of a peak value as it always should be the maximum possible signal level.
A red light and bad looking waveforms in the DAW is the result, but a interface reset should not happen during a recording session just because one of the talents is too loud.
If every input has that issue, then you should contact the RME support, I think.
You need to test with something other than the ipad. It sounds as if the ipad's internal power management might be faulty.
Do you have a powered USB hub handy?
Or use the BF with a power supply. Clear power case here.
Thanks for your answers, yes I want to clear the power issue.
I need to find the right power unit for the BF first.
Thanks for your answers, yes I want to clear the power issue.
I need to find the right power unit for the BF first.
https://www.thomann.de/de/rme_ntcardbus_x.htm
pp.perrier wrote:Thanks for your answers, yes I want to clear the power issue.
I need to find the right power unit for the BF first.
Thanks,
Ordered already
That was a problem of alimentation.
I tested today with the external power unit and the BF is working normally, no more reset on audio inputs peaks.
I would anyway be interested to understand why when the current is coming from the iPad it is not working well ?
Does Apple guarantee the amount of current the BF Pro needs from an iPad? Of course not.
Does Apple guarantee the amount of current the BF Pro needs from an iPad? Of course not.
Thanks for you answer, I can formulate my question differently and more precisely; the BF is sold as class compliant and it works with an iPad and totalmix, does RME has tested a normal ( at least for me) configuration where the iPad is alimented through an iPad hub and the standard apple alimentation ?
Thanks in advance for your help
The BF Pro works on the big iPad Pro and the smaller Pro for us. But nobody can guarantee that it will always do. You can use a powered hub or the power supply and it will.
It was my setup !
Anyway I will now use it with the dedicated power unit
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