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Finaly an update. I waited a couple weeks, (ok 3 or so) for the replacement mic to show up, I'm mr. patient, and finaly emailed velodyne again. Two days later the mic and cable were waiting when I got home from work. I figure the earlier email vanished into cyberspace.
I plugged in the new mic and cable and the sms sprung to life! Kinda anticlimactic at this point. I did a quick run through when the house was empty the other night. I checked a couple other sub positions, checked phase and polarity, none of which really made any drastic change. I ran the auto eq and called it good for now as I'm gonna be changing out some furniture pretty soon. One thing which seemed odd was when I matched the sub level to the mains, I had to turn the sub way down, 10 on the sms and 20% on the sub. This is just a little 10" definative sub here, not an ep 600.

Glad it came to life

That's kind of where I am with the levels on my EP500; About 25% gain on the sub, -8 dB on the receiver level, and the SMS-1 at volume 10. Seems way low since the SMS goes from 1 to 99 for volume!

Enjoy.

I've always found, even with just a Ratshack meter, that the sub calibrates lower than expected.

I'm not sure if it's a matter of not being as sensitive to the low bass, or if I just like the extra "kick", but I always end up turning the sub up a bit from "flat", calibrated levels.