artburda
Active Member
To my knowledge, nobody has yet measured the microphone monitoring output but I intend to do it soon. A/B'ing the direct monitor with the recorded track, the former definitely has a significant high shelf. It doesn't occur when monitoring line level sources, however.
As always, take my subjective observations with a grain of salt in the absence of measurements but what I'm hearing is not a subtle difference. I expect that it will show up in the FR once measured.
I just did such a loopback measurement with REW. Log sweep from RCA output 3 into combo input 2 (with a RCA-TS cable). Monitoring function in stereo mode. Output from headphone out into input 3 (TRS-TRS cable). Et voilà! Had to do it this way or the duplicated mono output from the left and right headphone out channels would cancel each other out.
I can't see any high shelf.
Edit: Or did you already try this? And the two front combo inputs have different circuits for direct monitoring line and mic inputs?
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