Installs - 2 DI's, 2 male RCA's, Projector... How to???

[GaffGirl88]

Hello ~
haves: 2 male RCA's to 1/4 inch, 2 DI boxes, DVD projector, XLR's ... (snake and soundboard)

have nots: detailed explanation of how to connect all of it together pre snake

(understood: DI's to snake, pan hard right left at board)

Thank you sooooo much for help!

[TJCornish]

How to what?? What are you trying to do? What's your source?

[GaffGirl88]

Path ~ Projector to DI's to snake to board to show films with audio from soundboard

[NickVon]

Are you trying to get Audio To the Projector? or From the Projector..... Why do you need sound from your projector at all? I think even most Pro projectors will not decode audio on HDMI inputs so inherently a Projector has nothing to do with the audio signal chain. A projector after all is just a different kind of computer monitor.

What is connected to the Projector? A DVD Player, Computer? In which case you need to take audio from your playback device. In the case of the DVD player, find your Stereo outputs on the DVD player(usually white and red RCA) Use your RCA to 1/4" into your Direct boxes. (RCA connects to the DVD player, 1/4 go into the Hi Z, connector on the DI's. XLR cables out of the DI into your audio snake. Bring up your channels on your soundboard corresponding to the snake channels and you should be golden.

[MarshallPope]

I'm thinking that she may have one of those multimedia all-in-one projector/DVD player boxes. If so, there will wither be a dual RCA out or there won't. If there is, you're in luck. Projector to RCA-1/4 to DI to XLR to board. If not, you just have the built-in speaker to work with.

[GaffGirl88]

Thx so far ... Basically I still need to know, if ya don't mind ...
Should both RCA males going into projector be red and then fed into each DI or should one of the males be red and the other white Into projector and then each going into their respective DI's ... Ultimate goal is stereo
Have done it with 1 DI and was mono weak! Thx a ton!

[Grog12]

Thx so far ... Basically I still need to know, if ya don't mind ...
Should both RCA males going into projector be red and then fed into each DI or should one of the males be red and the other white Into projector and then each going into their respective DI's ... Ultimate goal is stereo
Have done it with 1 DI and was mono weak! Thx a ton!

The short answer to your questoin is yes.....the long answer is what is sourcing the sound to your projector? You'd be better served to skip the projector in your sound run entirely.

[MarshallPope]

(Obviously, it doesn't matter what the physical color of the plug on the cable itself is, but: ) You will plug one cable into the red jack and one into the white jack. I'm pretty sure that red will be right and white is left, but i could be wrong on that.

[bishopthomas]

Correct. Red=Right

[TJCornish]

Path ~ Projector to DI's to snake to board to show films with audio from soundboard

Maybe you already got your answer, but the way you're describing this is confusing enough to warrant clarifying. Normally the audio path is described from source to destination. What's your source? Is Marshall correct in that your DVD player is built in to the projector? Where are your speakers? Are they built into the projector or separate?

The most common way to do this would be DVD player -> DI boxes -> mixer -> amps -> speakers. In this scenario the red and white outputs of the DVD player, using whatever cables you have available, would go to the DIs - left to one DI, right to the other. From there, the mixer would send the signal to your speakers.

Some projectors have audio inputs to use the speakers built in to the projector. If this is the case and if the speakers are adequate for your needs, then you can go simply from the audio outs of the DVD player to the audio ins of the projector. This doesn't sound like your scenario, though.

Basically you need to identify what's an "out" and what's an "in".

You mentioned that the audio was "weak". Does that mean you couldn't get enough volume, or did you mean "weak" as in "lame" - you missed the stereo effect? It should be completely possible to get satisfactory audio on a mono system, either using a DI box that can combine 2 inputs into 1 output (like the Whirlwind PCDI or the Radial ProAV1), or by using 2 DIs to a mixer panned center. If you have a stereo speaker system then you can do as you describe where you pan one channel left and one right.