No sound from condenser mic (yes, “mic” and “48v” are on)

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I have an AT2035 condenser mic and just tried it with my QC for the first time. (The mic itself set to 0 dB gain with its onboard switch.) With 48V phantom power engaged, I still had to push the QC’s input gain way high–like +25 dB—to get useful signal.

Tried the same mic with my Roland Rubix22 audio interface and had to push the gain down below 12:00 on the input knob because the input sensitivity light was peaking.

I personally don’t have a use case for the QC with a condenser mic, but just sharing what I experienced. Also, take a look at this older thread:

Low Microphone Levels

Greetings All, Using the Cortex as an audio interface, when I attach a condenser mic (AKG -C-3000B) to either input 1 or 2 and go to the I/O settings panel where the default level is set to 0.0 db and engage phantom power, I do not get any sound at all and the level meter shows -40.0 db. I have to push the level knob to 45.0 db to get an average of -10.0 db on the meter in the I/O settings and in my DAW. I do not have this issue when using an Apogee Duet interface. I have yet to test if this is…