Hooking Up Roy Anderson Field Sound Equipment
Keywords: Roy Anderson Field, Audio
Aliases: Sound, Music
1. Make sure you have all the equipment:
Behringer Audio Interface
1/4' Cables and 1/4' to XLR adapters
Data Cable
USB Hub
Laptop (Can be Mac or Windows)
Do not turn on the system yet, you'll cause extra loud pops and clicks plugging things in while it's on. If it's on before setting up, turn it off. There is a switch on the top right side in the front of the case.
2. Open the back of the rack, you're looking for the two open inputs on the bottom two boxes. Plug in the side of the 1/4" cables with the XLR adapter. It should look like what is pictured below. Doesn't matter which color cable goes where.
3. Now take the interface and plug it into your machine, if you have a mac then you'll need a USB hub. Just plug the square end of the cable into the back of the interface where it says USB, then the USB side into your computer (or into hub then computer).
4. Now take the other end of the 1/4' cables and plug them into the back of the interface, after you're done the back should look like this:
5. Now you'll want to adjust your volume, you can adjust the volume in 3 places. One is in whatever app you're using to play music, I'm using spotify. I would set the volume to about 50% there. The other place you can adjust it is your computer, I would set this to 100%. Then the last place is the knob on the front of the interface I circled below, Right is more volume Left is less. I would start with this pretty far to the left unlike the picture.
6. Now power on the system. There is a switch on the front side of the rack on the top right, just turn that on.
7. Finally you'll want to test your sound volume, set the above knob all the way to the left. Now turn on your music and slowly raise the volume until you get it to a comfortable volume.
8. You should be good to go! Be sure to power off the system before unhooking or you'll get more popping.