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Post subject: passport 500 monitor hookup failure
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:08 am
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I read here that the 500 does offer the capability of using a powered floor monitor via the stereo out pre-amp in the lower left hand corner of the unit.

I purchased a mini jack to 1/4" cable from PLanet Waves and a powered Peavey floor monitor.

I played in front of 305 people last night and tried to set the monitor up as described here. It didn't work at all.

I've got to say the 500 sounds great at very small venues but if you need a monitor, you're out of luck. I've dropped a grand on the passport system and $400 on the powered monitor and cable and don't have a properly working system. To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement.


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Post subject: Re: passport 500 monitor hookup failure
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:10 pm
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Bummer.

First, I suggest that any time you want to try out new equipment, it's a good idea to do it at home and not in front of an audience.

The cable you describe is suspect. The root of the problem is that a 1/4" "TRS" cable can be wired two different, incompatible ways. One way carries a stereo signal (which is the way you are using it). The other way carries a mono signal the same way that an XLR mic cable does.

Likely, the Peavey powered monitor is expecting a mono signal going in to its 1/4" jack. It is expecting one "hot" wire carrying your signal and one ground wire to complete the loop, or maybe it expects a third connector as a shield/safety ground, like XLR mic cables.

Instead, that cable is carrying two "hot" wires ("left" and "right" signals) and one ground. The monitor doesn't know what to do with that kind of wiring. If your cable went from a stereo 1/8" plug to two 1/4" mono plugs, you could plug one of the 1/4" plugs into your monitor and it would probably work fine.

You also might get a boom box that takes 1/8" stereo input and hook that up to your PassPort and use that as a monitor. It expects a stereo signal and the associated wiring.

Most people who use these Passports apparently don't use monitors. They just place the speakers behind them, high enough to not feed back into the microphones, but placed so that the performers can hear themselves.


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Post subject: Re: passport 500 monitor hookup failure
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:14 pm
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Hi rdeclan,

The 1/8" stereo out would be the proper output to send signal to your powered monitor. Have you tried connecting your monitor in the fashion described by Contra controller (stereo 1/8" plug to two 1/4" mono plugs, you could plug one of the 1/4" plugs into your monitor)?

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