Give it some time to brake in , work with it for shading with the control screw turned about two times to the left and after about 2~3 weeks you will see - feel the difference. The swash-drive system from its nature is pushing the needles softer anyway, so we didn’t want to make the Hyper to hit a lot softer than it is now because if you do not have a lot of experience for years you can easily get fooled by the soft hit and then after some months the colors may fade, we always have to keep in consideration that the colors have to get in to the proper skin level to last forever , this is just a tip to all the artists using super soft hitting machines.