Some time ago, I sold my Crane Song Avocet (which was awesome). I was doing less and less music work and more and more electronics, so it was time to simplify. I built a very simple completely passive monitor controller with just the bare minimum features. It was just for me, so it was not pretty but functional. It has a stepped attenuator, polarity, L& R mutes and Mono.
 

Lucid R3-- transparent mic preamp with optional jfet based harmonic drive. As well it has a tuneable high pass(5hz to 1khz), tuneable low pass(20k to 500hz), polarity,phantom power and de-pop circuit.

Hi gang,

You know I own a few Focusrite ISA preamps. I'm considering buying a few attenuators to allow me to drive the transformer a bit harder and try to pull out a bit more mojo.
I currently record tracks with a peak range between -18db to -10db (on the preamp and on the DAW).

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I called a couple local ear doctors, and i can get 'musicians ear plug's' for between $125-150, including the cast mold of my ears. this is a very reasonable price given hearing is not like fixing a broken bone.

hey everyone-

just picked up a pair active monitors, and am looking to build a simple passive volume control for them. Running 1/4" balanced TRS out of my interface into the monitors currently. Don't want to use the software master faders, as I'll lose the all important bit-depth of my digital audio when I have the fader dialed down...:mad:

I was looking into a few things. Is it possible to just use an Dual Ganged Audio Taper in between my DAW output and my active monitors. I am currently using a Behringer crap mixer to adjust control room monitoring levels and I hate the sound it gives my speakers.

I'm about 12 hours away from purchasing a Central Station. I was using a Mackie 1202 Mixer..but I sold it, now I'm using a patchbaywhich is hella annoying.