Thanks to you guys for putting up with my weirdness this last week or so, ive still got the ‘silence’ label but this is meant to be normal, and ive spent some time with the unit and it seems completely fine, so it’s back in action! 
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In other news- gain staging.
Yeah so the blofeld is a little quiet compared to other synths I own. Cranking my mixer input gain still doesnt give a decent signal level.
You can add distortion on the filters, but I found this wasnt that great, things get muddy and cloudy quickly.
Last night I found something hiding in FX slot 1.
Overdrive.
Pick a curve type (I went with pickup 1)
Go to the second page, crank the post level to max, cut off to max.
Then go back to page 1, set a drive level and bring up the dry/wet. (For the patch I was playing with, drive @ 18, dry/wet to max)
Fucking bingo, hot tasty signal into my mixer, full clarity, no filter distortion.
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I’m curious, is your blofeld one of the early units? I used to have one of the older ones and it was whisper quiet. The one I have now is newer (maybe under 10 years old) and is reasonably loud.
Ive got no idea actually. It was a present from my lovely gal. She updated the firmware before giving it to me. She got it second hand.
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Same for me. It has way quieter then all my other synths. I am just turning the channel gain up on my mixer and it is ok for me that way.
I have an older second hand unit, but can’t tell how old it exactly is.
I need to boost 4 to 8dB in DAW, so not overly quiet. Still, it is my only synth needing a boost.
Good to know that you can boost internally. I most often remove the FX anyways.
Have you noticed that even with no drive applied - set to zero - there are audible differences between the drive curves. Hard to tell which is most ‘neutral’
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When it comes to output level I find I have to have the main output at around 99 to avoid signals too hot for OT
Guess it depends on the patches you make