Microphone Line Jack Trouble

I sometimes have trouble when I use my microphones in some of the microphone line jacks. The music will fade in and out when the microphone is in use. I tried cleaning them, but had no success.

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Anonymous

It sounds like theres a switch on your mixer to lower the music when the mics switched on, called talkover.when you switch the mic off the music will return to normal levels. find the switch on the mixer and set it to 'on' not talk

Posted on Jul 06, 2007

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