Hook Up The Series 200 Mixer; Sound Reinforcernent - Tascam M-200 Series Owner's Manual

Hook Up the Series 200 Mixer
There are
a
few things you will need in order microphone cables short, particularly if you're
t o hook up your new mixer. You may want to using high impedance units.
read through the following paragraphs so that
you get what you need before you start. All Instruments: You may want t o run direct
connections should be made with the power off. boxes on some instruments. Be sure you have
them before you start. Some instruments put
AC Power: You'll need some outlets, obvious-
out very hot .signal levels and should be moni-
ly. Try NOT t o use outlets that are on the same
tored closely. Synthesizers, drum machines, and
circuit as air conditioners and old refrigerators.
al1 percussion instruments fall into this catagory.
These things may introduce noise to your Even though drums may be miked, they create
system. Keep al1 the elements of your system
transient levels that need watching.
Plugged into the same circuit, but not the same
plug. Have some three prong t o two prong, Headphones: They should be Stereo head-
ground liftladapters on hand. You may need phones. Never use monophonic headphones with
them for some of your other equipment. AC your 200 Mixer.
outlet testers are handy t o have around and can
be inexpensively purchased
a t
electronics stores.
SOUND REINFORCEMENT
Cables: You will need a vareity of cables in-
cluding: RCA-type, quarter inch phone-type, The IVl-208 and M-216 Mixers are ideal for use
XLR-type, speaker wire, and TASCAM Insert in sound reinforcement, P.A. applications.
Cables (mode1 PW-2YlPW-4Y). You will also Today's performers need a mixer that will
need some RCA-to-phone adapters. These allow them t o reproduce in live performance the
cables are used for the following: sounds of contemporary recordings. Such a
RCA: Use TASCAM cables, or equivalent mixer must provide: the ability t o accept in-
shielded, low capacitance, high RF resistant puts from microphones, instruments, tape
cables t o connect PGM Outputs, effect devices, recorders, sub-mixers, other line leve1 sources,
and tape recorders (you will need some RCA/ and effects devices; a stereo house mix; a stage
phone adapters for recorder hook ups.) monitor mix; effect patch points for individua1
Quarter-lnch Phone Cables: These should be instruments and the overall mix; and the con-
shelded and are used t o hook up musical in- venience of fader grouping for quick and easy
struments, unbalanced PGM Outputs, Effect Out sound adjustments during the performance by
and Returns, and Line Level Inputs.
a
sound man or from the stage. IVlany groups or
XLR: These three pin connector cables individuals will also need the same unit t o
should be shielded and are used t o connect double as a multi-track recording mixer. The
Low Impedance microphones, Input trans- Series 200 mixers were designed t o meet these
formers, PGM Outputs, and Stereo Outputs. needs.
These connector cables are also used with some In our application example, we used the
effects devices, direct boxes, and electronic M-208 with eight input channels. Instrumenta-
musical instruments.
tion for our example will be a multi-keyboard
Speaker wire: This wire need not be shielded setup using
i t s
own sub-mixer, an acoustic
and i t s connectors will vary with the amplifier guitar, with piezo-pickup, acoustic drums with
and speakers used.
three microphones, and three vocal microphones.
The group also has electric bass and electric
Cables should always be as short as i s possible
guitar, but these are not run through the mixer
t o do the job. It's also a good idea t o keep in our example. Electric guitar and bass generate
cables that do similar jobs together, audio input
enough stage volume that they can be left out
cables, output, effect send, etc. Use plastic cable
of the house and monitor mixes.
ties t o bundle them together. It's neat and it's
quiet. The vocal microphones are low impedance
units that use the balanced XLR connectors
Microphones: Use high quality microphones
in channels 1
-
3. The vocal microphone chan-
with your TASCAM mixer. The fine electronics
nels will be grouped on PGM Fader number 1.
in your Series 200 IVlixer will only sound as This grouping of the vocal mics will allow
good as the input source will let them. Keep you t o make changes of level for al1 three mics
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