Here is the progression of images showing how I made it.
A small community theater hired me to design the sound for an outdoors production. With no sound system in place, I had to improvise. I decided to make a box that'll contain all of my equipment and be easily setup, and struck at the end of the night, or if weather happened.
Because I had low budget (of none actually, all of this was out of pocket) I had cheap stereo system speakers that were most of my outputs. All of the speakers
(except my powered - http://www.pyleaudio.com/sku/PPHP12...wBuilt-In-iPod-Dock-USB-SD-and-Remote-control )
were the kind that have the loose wire out of the back that you connect to the back of a stereo receiver, I put female RCA's on those. (I had a TON of male to male RCA cables.) Since I provided all of the equipment myself, I can easily monitor what gets plugged in where. I provided the amps, computer, speakers, sound cards.... everything.
I am running MultiPlay - http://www.da-share.com/software/multiplay/ , It's free, simple to use, and can have as many as 4 outputs from it.
Which leads me to another obstacle I had to overcome, I needed 5 outputs. (4 to each amp, and 1 to my powered speakers,) So I decided to have 3 stereo outs, but then on the fourth, I panned Left and Right, Left was one set I needed, Right was another, Giving me a total of 3 stereo outs, and 2 "mono."
http://us.store.creative.com/Creative-Sound-Blaster-XFi-Go-Pro/M/B0044DEDC0.htm these are what I use as my sound cards, the sound is clear, and they are affordable.
And My "GO" box....
That was also a DIY project. It consists of the arcade buttons you see (which are also backlit,) the project box, and to run the keys I used a MIME emulator board ( https://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html ) to map the buttons to keyboard keys, The blue buttons are the up and down arrows, the green is the space bar, the red is ESC, and the three yellow are programmable hotkeys that are set in the application, but they are mapped to "z,x,c"
I wanted everything I provided to the company to be 'moron' proofed.
A small community theater hired me to design the sound for an outdoors production. With no sound system in place, I had to improvise. I decided to make a box that'll contain all of my equipment and be easily setup, and struck at the end of the night, or if weather happened.
Because I had low budget (of none actually, all of this was out of pocket) I had cheap stereo system speakers that were most of my outputs. All of the speakers
(except my powered - http://www.pyleaudio.com/sku/PPHP12...wBuilt-In-iPod-Dock-USB-SD-and-Remote-control )
were the kind that have the loose wire out of the back that you connect to the back of a stereo receiver, I put female RCA's on those. (I had a TON of male to male RCA cables.) Since I provided all of the equipment myself, I can easily monitor what gets plugged in where. I provided the amps, computer, speakers, sound cards.... everything.
I am running MultiPlay - http://www.da-share.com/software/multiplay/ , It's free, simple to use, and can have as many as 4 outputs from it.
Which leads me to another obstacle I had to overcome, I needed 5 outputs. (4 to each amp, and 1 to my powered speakers,) So I decided to have 3 stereo outs, but then on the fourth, I panned Left and Right, Left was one set I needed, Right was another, Giving me a total of 3 stereo outs, and 2 "mono."
http://us.store.creative.com/Creative-Sound-Blaster-XFi-Go-Pro/M/B0044DEDC0.htm these are what I use as my sound cards, the sound is clear, and they are affordable.
And My "GO" box....
That was also a DIY project. It consists of the arcade buttons you see (which are also backlit,) the project box, and to run the keys I used a MIME emulator board ( https://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html ) to map the buttons to keyboard keys, The blue buttons are the up and down arrows, the green is the space bar, the red is ESC, and the three yellow are programmable hotkeys that are set in the application, but they are mapped to "z,x,c"
I wanted everything I provided to the company to be 'moron' proofed.
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