So,
Long story short, the janitors came in and did a "deep clean" in our theatre and in the process unplugged everything from our soundboard. The show isn't for another couple of months, so while frustrating, it's fixable; however, we have a talent show rental and I needed to get a quick and dirty set up. Here's what happened...
I was getting our monitors back up, and midway through the process I started getting a full signal out of one of my monitors...but it is in no way connected to the board. All that's plugged in is the power cord and a 1/4in. connected to the output that isn't plugged into anything on the other end (just lying on the ground). I'm used to getting a super distorted signal from badly shielded cords, but this was a full and decent sounding signal, the only issue was a very very slight hiss when I turned the music off.
The only thing I can think of is that the installers used the cheapest cable known to man and that somehow it's getting picked up.
I've checked, they're not wireless in any way, and it's picking up any mics, music, etc., that I plug into the board, responding to volume changes, and overall functioning just like a low end monitor...it's just not plugged into anything
What did I stumble upon, and how do I fix it?
Long story short, the janitors came in and did a "deep clean" in our theatre and in the process unplugged everything from our soundboard. The show isn't for another couple of months, so while frustrating, it's fixable; however, we have a talent show rental and I needed to get a quick and dirty set up. Here's what happened...
I was getting our monitors back up, and midway through the process I started getting a full signal out of one of my monitors...but it is in no way connected to the board. All that's plugged in is the power cord and a 1/4in. connected to the output that isn't plugged into anything on the other end (just lying on the ground). I'm used to getting a super distorted signal from badly shielded cords, but this was a full and decent sounding signal, the only issue was a very very slight hiss when I turned the music off.
The only thing I can think of is that the installers used the cheapest cable known to man and that somehow it's getting picked up.
I've checked, they're not wireless in any way, and it's picking up any mics, music, etc., that I plug into the board, responding to volume changes, and overall functioning just like a low end monitor...it's just not plugged into anything
What did I stumble upon, and how do I fix it?