u/dabrahams

Just received my Eon One Mk2 and found it responded really weirdly when I plugged a guitar into one of the combo XLR/phone jacks. I hear almost nothing until I get the channel gain above a certain point, and then it comes through clearly. If I slowly roll back the volume control on the guitar, the sound suddenly shuts off.

Then, when scouring the manual I found this:

> EON ONE MK2 has an automatic mic/line switch. Between-100dB and 0dB, the channel will be in LINE mode. Between 1dB and 56dB, the channel will be in MIC mode.

I can work around this “feature” (which apparently also applies to the PRX One) by using the dedicated line input on CH4, which doesn't have that behavior, but if I'm playing with a friend, their guitar is going into a combo jack. The user manual even suggests that configuration as an “application example.”

Isn't this a fatal design flaw? Why don't I see complaints about it everywhere?

I just got an Eon One Mk2, and found that plugging my guitar into a combination XLR/phono input creates a weird limiting effect; I had to get the gain up above a certain threshold or there was hardly any output at all, and there's an intermediate region where the result is unpredictable. Volume swells? Forget it! They sound like the signal goes from off to full on. From scouring the documentation it turns out that:

>EON ONE MK2 has an automatic mic/line switch. Between-100dB and 0dB, the channel will be in LINE mode. Between 1dB and 56dB, the channel will be in MIC mode.

This would seem to be an absolutely fatal flaw for any live music with dynamics. I can avoid it by using the dedicated line level input on CH4, but what if I'm playing with a friend? They'll need to use one of the combo inputs. How can it be that I don't find complaints about this everywhere?