Microphone Setup

I. Wireless Microphone Setup……………………………………

II. Microphone Setup Using Stage Inputs……………………
I. Wireless Microphone Setup
1. Go into the desk draw in the computer desk and grab the keys with the white keychain. T

The key that you will need is B399A.

2. Go upstairs and into the green room (room separating Gamble and Chamber) and locate
the sound cabinet.
a. Use the B399A key to open the cabinet and open the drawer inside. Grab the key
inside there.

3. Turn on the system by pushing the white button on the PowerLink remote sequencer.
4. Go over to the file cabinet (right next to the sink, diagonal from the sound cabinet).

5. Open the cabinet using the key from the sound cabinet drawer.
a. Take out the two wireless microphones (one has red tape, the other white,) and
their mic clips.
b. Note the mic clips are specific for these two mics, and are found in the same drawer.

6. Make sure it has batteries. It requires two AAs.

a. Check by opening the battery compartment.
b. If not, batteries can be found in the same drawer that the mic was found in.
 7. Turn the microphone on with the button at the bottom of the mic.
a. Check and make sure the batteries work – after it is switched on, you will see the
battery life appear on the monitor on the front of the mic.

8. Grab two mic stands from either the green room or the studio and screw on the
microphone clips to the stand.

Controlling the Volume

9. After the microphone is set up, go to the right of the stage (stage left) and locate the
volume control box.
 10. For the wireless microphones, the volume is controlled by clicking the buttons labeled
with red tape and white tape (the first set of them).
a. The color of the tape corresponds to the microphone that it controls.
b. Be careful of the volume! It can feed back very easily. Use your best judgment
on where the volume sits because there’s no way to directly measure the
volume level.

Taking Down the Wireless Mic

11. Turn the mic off with the button on the bottom.

12. Take the mic clips off of the stand and put them back in the file cabinet.
13. Take the batteries out of the wireless mics and put them back in the file cabinet.
14. Put the mic back in the file cabinet and lock it.
15. Go to the sound cabinet and turn off the system using the white button that you used to
turn it on. Make sure you put the key that goes to the file cabinet back in the sound
cabinet drawer.

16. Lock the sound cabinet with key B399A.

17. Make sure you put the key back in the key basket in the recording studio – don’t take
them with you!
II. Microphone Setup Using Stage Inputs
Follow this guide if you are asked to set up mics for Jazz ensemble.

1. Go into the desk draw in the computer desk and grab the keys with the white keychain. T

The key that you will need is B399A.

2. Grab the following things from the studio:

a. XLR cables from the wall, depending on how many microphones need to be set
up. XLR cables look like this:

i. If setting up for Jazz Ensemble, you’ll need two cables.

b. A mic stand
i. You may need to get an additional one later depending on how many are
located in the green room.
c. The container with the microphones, found on the top shelf across from the log-
on computer.
 d. Mic clips from the shelf with the CDs and CD cases.
i. Grab as many mic clips as mics that you will set up (unless you are setting
up the wireless mic – see previous steps of the “Wireless Microphone
Setup” instructions for more information.)

3. Go upstairs on the Gamble stage and locate the mic inputs in the middle of the front of
the stage.
e. They have a covering on them – remove the covering.

4. Plug each XLR into the inputs with blue and yellow tape around them.
f. This is the side that you plug into the inputs.
5. Set up the mic stands and screw in the mic clips you got from the studio.
g. If setting up for Jazz Ensemble, use the following mic stand (always located in the
recording studio) for the piano mic.

6. Place the mics in the clips you attached to the mic stands.
7. Attach the other side of the XLRs to the bottom of the microphones.

8. Go upstairs and into the green room (room separating Gamble and Chamber) and locate
the sound cabinet.
b. Use the B399A key to open the cabinet and open the drawer inside. Grab the key
inside there.
 9. Turn on the system by pushing the white button on the PowerLink remote sequencer.

10. Go back onto the stage and test the microphones.

Controlling the Volume

11. After the microphones are set up, go to the right of the stage (stage left) and locate the
volume control box.

12. The volume for each mic is controlled by clicking the buttons labeled with the
corresponding color of each input.
a. The color of the tape corresponds to the microphone that it controls.
b. To find the colors that control the mics, take a look at the mic inputs in the
middle of the stage and look at the colored tape next to each one.
c. Be careful of the volume! It can feed back very easily! Use your best judgment
on where the volume sits because there’s no way to directly measure the
volume level.
13. To set the levels, go into the audience and stand where there is a speaker (they start
about halfway back).
14. Adjust levels accordingly and make sure that the mic level isn’t so high that it will feed
back.