Getting Started Placement | Tapco S8 guide

Getting Started

Placement

The following steps will help you set up your monitor speakers quickly. Follow these steps for all the S•8 studio monitors in your system.

INITIAL SETTINGS:

1.Turn the INPUT LEVEL control on the rear panel all the way down.

2.Set the HIGH FREQ and LOW FREQ switches to “0 (NORMAL).”

3.Turn the POWER switch OFF.

CONNECTIONS:

1.Connect the line-level monitor signal from your mixer (or other signal source) to the INPUT jack on the S•8 Studio Monitor (XLR, 1/4-inch TRS, or RCA).

2.Set the AC SELECT switch to the correct position for your country (115 VAC or 230 VAC).

3.Connect the supplied AC power cord to the IEC socket on the back of the monitor. Plug the other end into an AC outlet properly conﬁ gured with the correct voltage for the AC SELECT switch setting you have selected.

TURN IT ON:

1.Turn the POWER switch ON.

2.Start your signal source (tape deck, CD, DAW, or whatever), but leave the master level control on your mixer down.

3.Slowly turn up the INPUT LEVEL control on the S•8 to MAX (fully clockwise).

4.Adjust the master volume on your mixer to a comfortably loud listening level. If the volume from the speakers gets really loud, really fast, try turning down the INPUT LEVEL control on the S•8s a bit to achieve a good balance of master volume control and loudness from the speaker.

Now that you have your monitors working, it’s time to hunker down and read the rest of this manual…especially the following:

	LOOK	An Extremely Important
	LOOK	Note on S•8 Bass
		Note on S•8 Bass
	CLOSER	Response and Your
	CLOSER	Control Room
		Control Room

Your new S•8s achieve their best bass response in a room that’s optimized for bass reproduction. A lot of factors can conspire to thwart the S•8s’ extended low frequency, including room shape, room volume, and acoustical treatment.

This is not a cop-out or an apology. It’s plain old physics in action. Luckily, we’ve armed you with some compensating controls that you can use to optimize the frequency response of the speakers in your particular room. Consider the following:

Low-Frequency Response

When you put your S•8s in a corner or up against a wall, their bass characteristics change. The apparent loudness of the low frequencies increases when the monitors are placed close to a wall, and even more so when they are placed in a corner.

If you have placed the speakers away from the walls and corners and you would like to hear a little more bass, try setting the LOW FREQ equalization switch to the +2 dB position to provide a gentle boost to the low frequencies (below 100 Hz). If it’s still not enough bass, try the +4 dB position to provide a little more bass boost.