Kramer Electronics user manual Using Your VA-14 4x1 Balanced Audio Mixer

Using Your VA-14 4x1 Balanced Audio Mixer

5 Using Your VA-14 4x1 Balanced Audio Mixer

Sections 5￿ .1 and 5￿ .2 describe how to connect and operate your balanced audio mixer, respectively.

5.1 Connecting Your VA-14 4x1 Balanced Audio Mixer

To connect up to four balanced audio sources to the VA-144x1 Balanced Audio Mixer unit, as the example in Figure 3 illustrates, do the following:

1.Connect a balanced audio source (for example, a condenser microphone) to the XLR female:

￿INPUT 1 connector

￿INPUT 3 connector

On the underside set the INPUT 1 and INPUT 3:

￿PHANTOM switches to ON

￿LEVEL switches to MIC

2.Connect a balanced audio source (for example, a balanced audio tape player) to XLR female:

￿INPUT 2 connector

￿INPUT 4 connector

On the underside set the INPUT 2 and INPUT 4:

￿PHANTOM switches to OFF

￿LEVEL switches to LINE

3.Connect each of the XLR male OUTPUT 1 and OUTPUT 2 connectors to two power amplifiers, and connect each power amplifier to a pair of speakers.

On the machine underside, set the OUT 1and OUT 2 switches to LINE.

4.Connect the PHONES OUTPUT connector to a headphone set.

5.Connect the 12V DC power adapter to the power socket and connect the adapter to the mains electricity.

For every unused input, be sure to rotate the LEVEL potentiometer fully

counter-clockwise (to the minimum level)

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