First time hooking S4 up to professional sound / powered speakers. Tips?
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First time hooking S4 up to professional sound / powered speakers. Tips? Posted on: 26.06.2012 by Joslyn Patriarca Hey everyone. I've been bedroom DJing at home with my S4 just hooked up to computer speakers. At work I use serrato with pioneer CDJs and a pioneer DJM. All the wiring is supplied with me through the company so its a non-issue.However, I've recently been booked to fly to BC to DJ a wedding for a coworker (crazy..). Anyways, for this gig I'm taking my S4 and her macbook with the music library from work on it. Because of the location, they're renting a mic and speakers there, and I'm going to hook up into them. Having never seen them before I'm not sure what I'm dealing with. All the mixers I use at work use XLRs, however the S4 only runs RCA and 1/4" out. Whats my best option here? Pickup some RCA to XLR, or 1/4" to XLR adaptors? What is most reliable for sound and the speakers? Is there a difference? Should XLR only be used with one or the other? Should I ask them to get RCA-input powered speakers or 1/4" instead? I don't know much about the audio engineering side of things so I'm not too sure what to do. Since I'm flying to BC for this I can't really bring too much, and if it goes south I'm stuck with no resources so I need to get it right ahead of time. I can do a dry run at the office if need be. Having not used traktor or my S4 too much (have maybe 6 hours on it) I'm feeling a little rattled. It is "club" level gear, I just want to make sure I get it right. Any help is greatly appreciated. I cannot screw this up! | |
| Joslyn Patriarca 26.06.2012 | Hey everyone. I've been bedroom DJing at home with my S4 just hooked up to computer speakers. At work I use serrato with pioneer CDJs and a pioneer DJM. All the wiring is supplied with me through the company so its a non-issue. However, I've recently been booked to fly to BC to DJ a wedding for a coworker (crazy..). Anyways, for this gig I'm taking my S4 and her macbook with the music library from work on it. Because of the location, they're renting a mic and speakers there, and I'm going to hook up into them. Having never seen them before I'm not sure what I'm dealing with. All the mixers I use at work use XLRs, however the S4 only runs RCA and 1/4" out. Whats my best option here? Pickup some RCA to XLR, or 1/4" to XLR adaptors? What is most reliable for sound and the speakers? Is there a difference? Should XLR only be used with one or the other? Should I ask them to get RCA-input powered speakers or 1/4" instead? I don't know much about the audio engineering side of things so I'm not too sure what to do. Since I'm flying to BC for this I can't really bring too much, and if it goes south I'm stuck with no resources so I need to get it right ahead of time. I can do a dry run at the office if need be. Having not used traktor or my S4 too much (have maybe 6 hours on it) I'm feeling a little rattled. It is "club" level gear, I just want to make sure I get it right. Any help is greatly appreciated. I cannot screw this up! |
| Joslyn Patriarca 26.06.2012 | Sounds good! I don't believe I'll be patching into a mixing console. It's a small wedding, I'll likely just have two powered speakers and mix everything down with the S4. Depending on what the speakers inputs are I'll likely run the 1/4" in then. Definitely need to do a test run at home before I run it out there. Thanks! |
| Celine Surico 26.06.2012 | Most decent mixers have 1/4" an XLR inputs. S4's 1/4" is balanced, so if you want best quality get one of those cables that are 1/4" on one end and XRL on the other. Amazon sells them for below $10 or you could get them at Guitar Center and similar places. Make sure the cable (or cables in case you want two out) are long enough. |
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