4-Setting Up And Basic Operations; Things You'll Need; Power; A Way To Listen To The Vs-2000 - Roland VS-2000 Owner's Manual

4—Setting Up and Basic Operations

Things You'll Need

Power

You'll need a standard AC power socket that supplies grounded AC power. If you're
going to listen to the VS-2000 through speakers, you'll also need power for them and for
their amplifier if it's a separate component.

A Way to Listen to the VS-2000

You can listen to—or "monitor"—the VS-2000 through speakers or by connecting
standard stereo headphones to the VS-2000's PHONES jack.
For speakers, we recommend Roland's DS-series Digital Reference Monitors
(purchased separately). There are several reasons:
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A Headphone Note
The VS-2000's PHONES jack is a 1/4" stereo phone-type jack, so you'll need to make
sure that the headphones you use have a 1/4" stereo phone-type plug. If your
headphones have some other type of plug, you'll need to purchase an adapter for them.

Getting Ready

Turn Everything Off, Turn Everything Down
In order to prevent any unpleasant surprises or damage to your monitoring equipment,
you should turn off all of your equipment—the VS-2000, monitors, etc.—before making
your connections. In addition, you should turn down all of the appropriate volume
controls before powering up your system:
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They have ultra-flat frequency responses. It's critical that your speakers tell you the
truth as you work so you know what your recordings really sound like. The
DS-series tell the truth.
The DS-series are powered monitors, meaning that they have their own built-in
amplifiers that are perfectly matched to the speakers.
They have coaxial digital inputs so that you can connect them to the VS-2000
digitally and avoid noise that may occur with analog wiring.
They can take advantage of Roland's advanced COSM Speaker Modeling that lets
you try out your work on a variety of virtual speaker models. The VS-2000's built-in
speaker models eliminate the difficulty of making sure your recordings sound good
on any speaker system.
If you're using a speaker amplifier, turn its gain control down all the way.
On the VS-2000, turn down the MONITOR knob to the right of the display all the
way. If you're going to connect headphones to the PHONES jack, turn down the
PHONES knob all the way as well.
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