Had fun with the Analog Heat for 2 hours yesterday. Have to spend a lot more to really make use of the box and understand now what you meant with „overload for my setup“.
What i noticed is that the audiolevel coming out of the Heat with „On“ turned off is much lower than the signal directly from the op-z (headphones plugged into the op-z for comparison). Even when the input sensibility is set to high or max on the Heat.
This seems a little strange to me and makes comparison with Heat vs without Heat hard.
The Signalflow is:
OP-Z —> Heat (Stereo in) —> Heat (Stereo out) —> Zoom H4N Pro —> Monitor Mode to Headphones.
First i thought maybe it´s Zoom Monitoring Mode but even when i plug the headphones directly to the stereo out of the Heat i experience this.
Any idea if this is normal behaviour and the Heat is lowering the signal to boost it with the own effects afterwards?