What Is The Situation, And How To Connect Everything - Native Instruments AUDIO KONTROL 1 Operation Manual

6.1.1. What Is the Situation, And How to Connect Everything

You are sitting comfortably in the control room. The song has already been recorded,
it's loaded into your favorite multi-track recording software, and only the voice track
is missing. The singer is standing in the recording room. You want to:
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record his (her) voice,
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send the song to his (her) headphones, so that he (she) can sing on it,
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listen to the result live and direct in your control room, i.e. the song playback
and the voice being recorded.
First, we will plug the microphone's balanced XLR jack into AUDIO KONTROL 1's
Combo Input Jack.
Depending on the type of microphone you use for your recording, the Phantom Power
Switch needs to be activated. You can find it on the rear panel of AUDIO KONTROL 1.
Please have a look into your microphone's documentation if you are not sure
whether to use phantom power or not. Using the incorrect setting might damage
the microphone.
Don't forget to engage the Input 1 Level Switch, so that the incoming signal goes
through AUDIO KONTROL 1's microphone pre-amplification circuitry. The input
signal level is adjustable on the hardware side by the Microphone Input Sensitivity
Knob. Note that you will probably also have an input level control within your re-
cording software.
As we said, we will here follow the diagram as shown in section 4.1.1. In this dia-
gram, Outputs 1 and 2 are used for monitoring purposes (i.e. they are sent to your
control room amplification system). The control signal being sent to the singer is
coming from Outputs 3 and 4.
So let's connect your monitoring system to Main Output Jacks 1 and 2 on your
AUDIO KONTROL 1's hardware rear panel, and the headphone amplifier device
to Main Output Jacks 3 and 4.
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