Wireless speaker issue last night

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I'm using a rig with EV ELX 112p mains, Denon X500 mixer and Sennheiser mic. Last night, I was doing a wedding at a B&B and setup on the back patio area. Attached to the patio was an indoor room that had 2 doorways opening onto the patio. The client had requested a wireless speaker rig setup in the room where cake-cutting was being held. I used my AT-2100 and an EV ZXa1, everything was working great (this rig is highly recommended, btw). I use the 1/4" "booth output" to send the wireless to the wireless transmitter/body pack. The problem, and I didn't "discover" this until right before toasts (at cake cutting), is that the channel 1 mic doesn't hit the booth output. In short, the music was fine but the mic was dead. I compensated by opening the room doors and pointing the patio speakers that direction. It worked but not what i wanted to do.

I could get a 1/4">RCA converter and jump the wireless to another channel but how would you recommend setting it up?
 
When you say "Channel 1", are you talking about the first main upfader channel on the mixer or the first rotary knob on the top left of the mixer?

If you're talking about the rotary knob (controlling the XLR/TS combo female jack at the back of the mixer), then make sure that you press the POST button on the bottom left corner of the mixer. This would direct the mic output to the Booth Out.

If you're talking about the upfader channel (and you had somehow routed your microphone to the back of the mixer via a 1/4" TRS to RCA adapter), then it's quite possible that you may have forgotten to set the channel to "thru" and it was set to a specific side of the crossfader. Look at the small selector switch at the bottom of the channel fader. If your crossfader was not either in the middle or pulled to the correct side, then the mic routed to Channel 1 would not be heard.
 
JamminDownJD said:
When you say "Channel 1", are you talking about the first main upfader channel on the mixer or the first rotary knob on the top left of the mixer?

If you're talking about the rotary knob (controlling the XLR/TS combo female jack at the back of the mixer), then make sure that you press the POST button on the bottom left corner of the mixer. This would direct the mic output to the Booth Out.

If you're talking about the upfader channel (and you had somehow routed your microphone to the back of the mixer via a 1/4" TRS to RCA adapter), then it's quite possible that you may have forgotten to set the channel to "thru" and it was set to a specific side of the crossfader. Look at the small selector switch at the bottom of the channel fader. If your crossfader was not either in the middle or pulled to the correct side, then the mic routed to Channel 1 would not be heard.
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<brain-dead-moment>Ah, the "post" button. So THAT's what that is for</brain-dead-moment>

Thank you.
 
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