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  • March 18, 2012 at 4:49 am #16945
    Dayvue
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    Well first, congratulations on getting a chance to play! You need to figure out how to connect to an amp (I presume that your school doesn’t have their own mixer because it’s well.. a school). Most amps take either an XLR (has three prongs and a pretty large diameter) in or a 1/4 inch TRS (like an ipod jack, but bigger), and you need to figure out how to plug your controller into that. What are the outs on your controller?

    March 18, 2012 at 1:41 pm #16956
    VinnyBlanc
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    RCA and TRS Outputs

    March 19, 2012 at 9:32 pm #17009
    Henry
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    Dayvue, post: 17029, member: 837 wrote: Well first, congratulations on getting a chance to play! You need to figure out how to connect to an amp (I presume that your school doesn’t have their own mixer because it’s well.. a school). Most amps take either an XLR (has three prongs and a pretty large diameter) in or a 1/4 inch TRS (like an ipod jack, but bigger), and you need to figure out how to plug your controller into that. What are the outs on your controller?

    Thanks It has TRS, and RCA outputs. I will be dj’ing 1 school dance (6th 7th and 8th) and 1 rising 6th grade dance (5th graders). Which should be off the hook /sarcasm.

    March 20, 2012 at 1:35 pm #17037
    Reason808
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    Congrats on the gig, but don’t forget the cable length!
    Nothing sucks more than finding out your cable is too short only an hour before the gig starts!

    March 21, 2012 at 9:30 pm #17132
    Hee Won Jung
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    You can get 1/4 to XLR adapters as well as RCA to XLR adapters…but i would reccommend to stick with 1/4″ if possible, especially if the distance from your rig to the Amp is over 10′ as RCA signals degrade directly in order with the length of the cable…longer the cable the more it degrades

    March 22, 2012 at 5:33 pm #17175
    Eduardo Beattie
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    Congrats Bro!

    I recommend you ask them to let you have a look at the amp, that way you can be exactly sure about what cables you need. Remember though, that there is a difference between balanced and unbalanced audio, so check for that!

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