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Installing the q2u – Samson Q2U Recording & Podcasting Pack (Gray) User Manual

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3. To set the Q2U as your default device

for sound playback and recording, or

to change its settings, click the

Start

button, click

Control Panel

and then

click

Sounds and Audio Devices

.

Under the

Audio

tab, you can select

the Samson Q2U from the drop-down

menus. (figure 3).

4. To set the gain of the microphone,

click the

Volume

button in the

Sound

recording

section to make the

Microphone

slider appear (figure 4). It

will say “Samson Q2U” in the status bar

at the bottom. Moving this slider will

adjust the analog amplifier circuitry in

the microphone.

5. To set the direct monitoring level or the

playback volume in the headphones,

click the

Volume

button in the

Sound

playback

section instead. Adjusting

either the

Speaker

slider on the left or

pushing the push-buttons on the mic

changes the headphone level (figure

5). To turn off the zero-latency direct

hardware monitoring (if you want to

use software play-through with effects

instead), click

Figure 5

Installing the Q2U

Figure 4