Komplete Audio 6 and turntable

Tomocr

I've tried a search but nothing specific came up so apologies if this has been asked previously.

I use an Audio Technica turntable for vinyl (not DJ so this isn't a Q about Traktor or time coding) to sample in to Live 12.

Turntable output is RCA switched to LINE on the turntable. This goes to channel 1 and 2 inputs (1/4" jacks) on the front of the Komplete Audio 6.

No matter what Gain I set on the input of the KA6 or whether it's set to LINE or INSTRUMENT, when audio gets to a loud point, the is a substantial amount of distortion.

I've read that the KA6 has a pre amp for microphones. Does this mean that a turntable should be fine also?

Is the distortion being caused by too high or too low a signal? I almost purchased a cheap pre amp but I stopped when I found out that the KA6 already has one built in.

Any advice appreciated.

Uwe303

Hello,

do you mean the ka 6 mk2? And the ka 6 mk1 and mk2 have both no tt preamp build in, that´s why you use the one in your tt to bring the level up to line level + some frequency correction (riaa curve, no mic amp can do!!). But what´s strange is that you have that with the ka 6 set to line or instr. while instr. has a greater amplification normally. Does the signal get at least influenced by the gain knob, just the distortion is there?