Rockbox User Manual PDF
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1. Rockon Cable Here you will see two connectors One of them Is an in line female 1 4 jack and the other is a TRS 1 4 plug The in line female 1 4 jack is your instrument signal From here you can patch your instrument signal to your guitar amp or pedals In this respect the Rockon Cable is functioning like an instrument extension cable The second connector located at the Rock Box end of the cable is an TRS 1 4 Plug This will plug into the output port of the Rock Box this port is labeled with a headphone symbol and is located on the right This connection links your monitor mix from the Rock Box fo the in line 1 8 headphone jack located at the performer end of the cable Personal Monitor System User Manual Pg 3 The Rock Box Limiter Headphone Amp CONNECTORS AND CONTORLS This section provides descriptions of each connector and control element of the rockbox limiter i APARALLELA l A JS N IN OUT am ROEK BOX LIMITER 4 5 6 2009 Rock dio LLC 3 Te Patent pending 2008 1 N 0 11 l ROCKON AUDIO 7 Designed for rocking with in ear monitors www rockonaudio com 8 9 10 9V DC Power Input To power the unit please use the provided 9V AC adaptor aka wall wort The default polarity is center pin posisitve Although this may be adjusted internally to change the polarity Please visit the website for instructions on this procedure or contac2. will pad your input by 30dB and allow you to access your monitor mix from a speaker line signal This is useful if the club you are playing has passive floor monitor soeakers already in their system You can simply use a standard 1 4 mono cable i e a guitar cable from the parallel out of the floor wedge and go directly into the rockbox This way you can continue to use the floor wedge as usual but you will also hear that mix in your in ear monitors Parallel out This is for use when you are sharing a mix with other band members The parallel out Is an easy way to dailsey chain rockboxes If can also be used as a means to access your monitor mix before the speaker signal hits a passive floor wedge
3. RS Inout When you want to share a mix with another Rockbox It is useful to daisy chain the signal 6 1 4 Headphone Output Plug in your headphones or in ear monitors into this output jack If you are using a Rockon Cable plug in the 1 4 TRS connector on the rockbox end of the cable Volume Knob Always start at 0 Turn it up to your desired listening volume The Rockbox Limiter has output limiting spesifically designed for use with in ear monitors It protects your ears against unwanted feedback and the accidental pops that happen in live sound enviourments Personal Monitor System User Manual Pg 4 Line level Setup LINE SPK button OUT LED Blue Speake line Setup LINE SPK button IN LED Green 1 Check out the diagrams above Choose your setup Line level or Soeaker line 2 Plug in your monitor mix signal soeaker or line level When using a Speaker level signal set Rock Box to SPK When using a Line level signal set to LINE 3 Plug in power Please use the supplied 9V power supply 4 Plug in the Rockon Cable 1 4 TRS Plug into the Rock Box Use the port labeled with a generic headphone symbol it is the right most 1 4 jack 5 Patch your instrument signal from the In line Female 1 4 Jack located at the Rock Box end of the Rockon Cable to your amp DI or pedals 6 Plug in the 1 4 instrument plug located at the performer end of the Rockon Cable into yo
4. i EN ROCK ON AUDIO Personal Monitor System Rockbox Limiter Headphone Amp and Rockon Cable User Manual Personal Monitor System User Manual Pg Contents How the system works amp TNE ROCKON CAI cecceeeee eee eeeee 0 2 The Rockbox Limiter Headphone AMP cece ceccccceeceecceceescescesencs ons igs cect eco so cos EEEE EE E EEEE susie ua eeta scenes EE EEEE 0 4 EXtra x lt 5 eee eee eee ee D o ROCK ON AUDIO Personal Monitor System User Manual Pg 2 How the system works amp the Rockon Cable This system is designed around one new idea use one cable for both your instrument signal and your monitor mix The Rockon Cable pictured below does exactly this There are two ends of the cable m aaeeea 2 ka TRS plug monitor mix In line Female 1 4 jack instrument signal 6 In line1 8 headphone jack monitor mix a 1 4 guitar plug instrument signal The Performer end of the cable On the right side of the picture above you can see the performer end of the RockonCable At the very end of the cable there is a standard 1 4 instrument plug This plugs info your instrument If you continue down the cable going away from the instrument plug you will see an In line 1 8 headphone jack This is where you can plug in your headphones or in ear monitors 2 The Rock Box end of the cable On the left side of the picture above you can see the Rock Box end of the
5. t Rock On Audio directly via phone or email ON Led Connecting the power supply to the unit automatically turns it on and the ON Led will illuminate It will be either green or blue depending on which setting the LINE SPK push button 3 is set to LINE Green SPK Blue This feature was designed to help the user ensure the correct settings in dark stage enviorment LINE SPK push button switch This is a bush button switch that eneables you to choose between two different types of input signals Pushing the button causes the switch to engage or dis engage a 30dcB pad on the input this pad does not effect the parallel out Each time you push the button it will stay in or out BE When the button is OUT the 30d0B pad Is dis engaged and the unit is ready to accept a standard line level signal i e from an aux send of a mixing board am When the button is IN the 30dB pad is engaged and the unit is ready to accept large voltage swing signals such as a speaker line signal 1 4 TRS Input To send a signal from a mixer or a speaker to the Rockbox Limiter you will need an audio cable that has 1 4 connectors This unit can accept mono balanced TRS and un balanced TS signals when using a soeaker line signal it will always be Un balanced so us an un balanced 1 4 TS cable i e a standard speaker cable 1 4 TRS Parallel Output This connector jack is in parallel with the 1 4 T
6. ur instrument 7 Set your volume fo 0 8 Plug in your in ear monitors or headphones into the inline 1 8 jack located 8 inches away from the performer end of the rockon cable 9 Adjust Volume to your desired setting Personal Monitor System User Manual Pg 5 Extra Notes Saftey High volumes can damage your hearing and your headphones Although the Rockbox Lim iter has output limiting it is designed to limit only the extremely loud peaks The threshold is set this way so it will not effect the loudness and dynamics of your monitor mix and only protect against extrememly harmful loud signals usch as feedback or high spikes caused by unplug ing of mics or Instruments on active channels So please keep in mind how loud your in ear mix is and if you still hear ringing after band practice or a show you probably want to think about monitoring at a lower overall volume But please continue to rock on More about INPUTS There are two ways to setup your system One is to send a line level signal to the Rock Box The second is to send a speaker line signal to the Rock Box Both work great but to aviod distorting your signal you must use the correct setting of the LINE SPK button on the Rock Box Line Level signal set to LINE mode This will setup your rockbox to recieve standard line level signals i e what you would get from an aux out of a mixer or any line level output for the matter Speaker Line set to SPK mode This
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