Dangerous SOURCE User Manual

Dangerous SOURCE User Manual

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U S E R
G U I D E
SOURCE
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The Truth is In Here

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  • Page 1 U S E R G U I D E SOURCE ® The Truth is In Here...
  • Page 2 Company contact information is on the last page of this manual. The CE sign on this product signifies the fact that the SOURCE® has been tested and verified to conform to the appli- cable standards of 89/336/EEC.EN55103-1 (emissions) EN61000-2 (immunity) and EN60065:2002 (safety requirements)
  • Page 3: Thank You

    This is made possible through careful design, construction, and component choices by recording industry veterans. The Dangerous Music Source is designed to inspire your musical genes. No matter if you’re on the road or in studio, Source allows you to hear with unparalleled accuracy, propelling composition, performance and mixing to new heights.
  • Page 4 | DANGEROUS MUSIC TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview Source Rear Panel Features & Benefits Source Front Panel Features, Benefits & Connection Setup: Mac Setup: PC Source Application Notes Specifications Warranty...
  • Page 5 Built for life on the road, slide the SOURCE into your backpack and hit the streets. Inside the box you’ll find the Source, a USB 2.0 compliant cable, 12 volt/2 Amp power supply (PSU-SRC) and the manual you’re reading now.
  • Page 6 | DANGEROUS MUSIC Source: Rear Panel Connections rear panel inputs pictured above 1. ANALOG INPUTS Feature: Analog Input 1 is on XLR / TRS combination connectors. Benefit: Use gear with XLR balanced connectors, or TRS balanced connectors or TS unbalanced connectors.
  • Page 7 Feature: Connect the USB 2.0 compliant output from your computer here. Benefit: Skip using an interface or use this to monitor an additional output source from your computer. Use: Use one set of outputs to set up a custom headphone mix for the talent and use the USB output to monitor the main mix, leveraging the mastering grade converter in .
  • Page 8 Feature: A pair of stereo outputs that mirror the speaker source selected. Benefit: Send your selected source or sources to another destination (i.e. Front of House PA system, mixdown device like a CD Burner, iPhone or cassette deck- remember those?)
  • Page 9 Feature: Instantly and silently switch between four headphone input sources ( analog 1 analog 2 aes / spdif Benefit: While mixing, flip between a reference track. For example, CD source or iPod connected via analog input one input two and your mix connected digitally via...
  • Page 10 / spdif Benefit: While mixing, flip between a reference track (i.e. cd source or iPod) and your mix. Or setup two master faders in your recording software to compare two mixes: one with plug-ins instantiated and the original. (Just two suggestions).
  • Page 11 SOURCE | 5. SPEAKER SOURCE SETUP (TOGGLE TO LATCH MODE) speaker source buttons pictured above Feature: Set the desired behavior for the : either mode. speaker source buttons toggle latch Benefit: Simultaneously press and hold the bracketed buttons ( ) on the side.
  • Page 12 2 aes / spdif store and exit setup mode. 8. MOMENTOGGLE (HEADPHONES SOURCE • SPEAKER SOURCE • SPEAKERS) headphones source speaker source and speaker selection buttons pictured above Feature: is built into all of the buttons above. It provides either a momentary or latching mode, at the user’s momentoggle discretion.
  • Page 13 SOURCE | Source: Mac Setup PRO TOOLS Plug in via USB to your Mac. source Power up source Launch Pro Tools. Navigate to the “ ” menu. setup Select “ ”. (PHOTO OP 01) playback engine A pop up screen will appear...
  • Page 14 10 | DANGEROUS MUSIC Source: PC Setup Plug in via USB source To install the driver, plug the USB port to the computer and power up source Double click on the icon and extract the 7.4.2 ceudusb driver installer file.
  • Page 15 PHOTO OP 13 Windows 8 is supposed to implement a USB Audio 2.0 system. The engineers at Dangerous chose Audio 2.0 because it runs higher sample and bit rates. PC users, welcome to the bleeding edge!
  • Page 16 12 | DANGEROUS MUSIC Source: Application Examples The Producer Talent is using headphones with (headphone mix out of the computer) and for zero latency vocals. analog input two analog input one Producer is monitoring via speakers the for the master mix and for zero latency vocals.
  • Page 17: Specifications

    SOURCE | SPECIFICATIONS INPUT 1 TO SELECTED LINE OUT AND SPEAKERS Frequency Response +0, -0.5dB from <10 Hz to >80 kHz THD+N < 0.0025% @+4dBu IMD (SMPTE) < 0.0025% @ +4dBu Crosstalk rejection >108dB Noise < -93 dB, unweighted NOTE:...
  • Page 18 Now it’s your turn to unleash the potential of and tell us all the unusual applications you’ve utilized it in! source Experiment well beyond the pages of this manual. The Source is a still audio river that runs deep. -The Dangerous Music Team -you will hear the difference...
  • Page 19 •Always insure shipment as these damages are not covered by the warranty. •Operating the device with anything other than the Dangerous Music Power Supply will void the warranty •Thank you for actually reading the manual. Now go make some Dangerous Music!
  • Page 20 Dangerous Music Inc. 231 Stevens Road, Edmeston, NY 13335 info@dangerousmusic.com www.dangerousmusic.com...

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