Bill, you have come up with an excellent way to get around this problem!!! To begin with, I am not pleased with having to buy any extra gear to take to a gig and this preamp would be one. I appreciate your warning of an overload in the mic input circuitry. Unless I have misunderstood you, I think in my case, since I have to drop the volume of the APC/Sequencer for the mic to be loud enough set a max when playing a sequenced song, I would leave the physical APC/Sequencer set at the lower volume and change my Panel Memories for live playing by setting the On-Screen APC/Sequencer volume lower as well. I don’t see how I could keep the physical APC/Sequencer volume set to max because that is the problem of too much coming through for the mic volume. I hope I have made myself clear. I have never used the On-Screen APC/Sequencer volume. It is always set to 127 and I have always considered that is where it should be because the physical setting has always been set to max. Thanks, again for coming up with this possibility. I hope you will further comment if I am wrong about the settings.

Mark