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4—Setting Up and Basic Operations
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If you’re using headphones, the setting of the MONITOR knob establishes the basic
monitoring level, so set it to its 0dB position. To adjust your headphones’ volume, use
the PHONES 1 or 2 knob that corresponds to the jack into which you’ve plugged your
headphones. Start with the knob turned all the way counter-clockwise, and slowly turn
it clockwise to reach the desired listening level.
Playing the Factory Demos
As shipped from the factory, your VS-2480 has two demonstration songs—”demos”—
stored as projects on its internal hard drive. When you power up the VS-2480, the “What
You Don’t Know” project is loaded into the VS-2480, all of its settings are restored, and
its track channel faders move to their last-saved positions.
“What You Don’t Know”
This section presumes you’ve just powered up your VS-2480 and the factory demo
project “What You Don’t Know” is loaded. If this isn’t the case, load “What You Don’t
Know” —see “Loading a Project” on Page 95 to learn how to load a project. (For demo
details, see the track sheets included in the VS-2480 box.)
Bring Down the MASTER Fader
To make sure the demo isn’t too loud, bring the MASTER fader all the way down before
you play the demo.
The MASTER fader controls the level of the MASTER mix bus that’s routed to the
MONITOR bus (see “What’s a Bus?” on Page 57). Since the MONITOR bus is supplying
audio to the MONITOR and PHONES jacks—and to the digital output you’re using for
your DS-90Aor DS-50A Digital Reference Monitors—moving the MASTER fader has
the effect of adjusting your listening level.
Starting Playback of the Demo
1. Press PLAY to begin playback.
2. Slowly bring up the MASTER fader to set the MASTER mix to a comfortable
listening level.
If you’ve connected a speaker system directly to the VS-2480 and would like separate
control of your speakers and headphones, route the MASTER outputs to the desired
PHONES jack on the EZ ROUTING OUTPUT ASSIGN screen (see Steps 1-3 in “If
You’re Using DS-90A or DS-50A Monitors” on Page 75). The MONITOR knob will
control only the speakers, and each PHONES knob will control the associated jack.
In the factory demos, the MASTER bus is routed to the PHONES jacks, so each
PHONES knob independently controls the level produced by its headphone jack.
If you’d like to make changes to a demo project and save your changes, make a copy of
the project (Page 101) to work with. The copies loaded onto your hard drive at the
factory are write-protected (Page 99) and are therefore not editable.
If the demo finishes playing before you’re done reading the following sections, press
ZERO to restart it.
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