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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-2480 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-2480
You can listen to—or “monitor”—the VS-2480 through speakers or by connecting
standard stereo headphones to either or both of the VS-2480’s PHONES jacks.
For speakers, we recommend Roland’s DS-90A or DS-50A Digital Reference Monitors
(purchased separately). There are several reasons:
• 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-90As and DS-50As tell the truth.
• The DS-90As and DS-50As are powered monitors, meaning that they have their
own built-in amplifiers that are perfectly matched to the speakers.
• They have SP/DIF digital inputs so that you can connect them to the VS-2480
digitally and avoid noise that can 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-2480’s built-in
speaker models eliminate the difficulty of making sure your recordings sound good
on any speaker system.
A Headphone Note
The VS-2480’s PHONES 1 and 2 jacks are 1/4” stereo phone-type jacks, so you’ll need to
make sure that the headphones you use have 1/4” stereo phone-type plugs. 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-2480, monitors, etc.—before making
your connections. In addition, you should turn down all of the appropriate volume
controls before powering up your system:
• If you’re using a speaker amplifier, turn its gain control down all the way.
• On the VS-2480, turn down the MONITOR knob to the left of the display all the
way. If you’re going to connect headphones to the PHONES 1 and/or 2 jack, turn
down the corresponding PHONES knob(s) all the way.
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