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Topic: Question about small monitor, and small mixer |
Terry Sneed
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Posted 27 Jun 2008 8:12 pm |
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I have a Berhinger urorack UB 802 mixer, and a Nady personal nearfield monitor, non powered. Can I use this little mixer to power up the monitor, and hook it up to the PA system at our Church, so when our group is practicing, my wife can hear herself through this Nady monitor. She's having trouble hearing herself sing with the other vocals. The monitor has a volume on it. If this can be done, will somebody kindly tell me how to hook the mixer and monitor to the PA please. If this won't work, I'll have to send it back and get a more expensive powered monitor, which I'm hoping I won't have to do.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Terry |
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Steve English
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Posted 27 Jun 2008 9:10 pm
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You can plug the monitor speaker into the 802's headphone output and power the speaker that way. I would jumper left and right for a combined output.
Turn the monitor's volume pot all the way up and just use the mixer's headphone volume control.
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Terry Sneed
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Arkansas,
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Posted 28 Jun 2008 1:04 pm monitor
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Thanks Steve. How would I connect from the 802 to the PA, and is there a way to connect it to where my wife can here herself sing through the nady monitor, without hearing the other two singers? Thanks again
Terry |
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Steve English
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Baja, Arizona
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Posted 28 Jun 2008 7:54 pm
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Simplest way I can think of is to take a direct out from the channel that your wife's mic is plugged in and input it into a line in on the 802 mixer.
Adjust the input to desired level and signal should appear at the headphones out. Master channels probably have to be up also.
There are several other alternatives you can use to get the signal out of her mic input channel; 1) use the channel patch out (the send section of send/receive on the channel), 2) an effects send (if there's one that can be dedicated to her mic only), 3) a buss out (if there is one that can be dedicated to her only), 4) a direct out (if the board has that capability).
Your sound person should know how to do this kind of thing.
Note: I'd highly recommend learning how to sing with the other two singers acoustically...IMHO nothing beats that. Simple trick is to put a bit of cotton in one of her ears. See which ear works best, then how much cotton is necessary to achieve the desired blend/mix.
Block off one ear and sing something...you'll see what I mean.
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Terry Sneed
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Arkansas,
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Posted 28 Jun 2008 8:30 pm monitor
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Well I really appreciate all your help Steve. Our sound man, lead singer, is new to all this stuff also. He knows a little more about a PA system than I do, and as you can tell, that ain't sayin much. 
We are just a local Gospel group and you can take my word on this> we are lot better musicians,and singers, than we are at setting up a PA system.
I think what we need more than anything right now is a good sound man. LOL! Thanks again Steve
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