How to Setup the PreSonus Monitor Station V2 -- OBEDIA.com Studio One Training and Tech Support

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In this video we show you how to setup and configure your PreSonus Monitor Station V2 for utilizing multiple monitor setups in your studio. This is easy to set and calibrate and use.

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PreSonus Monitor Station V2 -This professional desktop studio-control system manages three stereo line-level sources, a stereo S/PDIF digital input, three sets of monitors, and four sets of headphones.

Here’s what you will need to set up the Monitor Station V2. You’ll want of course your Monitor Station V2, some quarter inch cables to run between your audio interface and also your speakers from the Monitor Station V2. You’ll need your audio interface, and really any audio interface should work. You’ll need your computer, of course. You’ll need some test tones and those test tones we will give you a link to where you can get those. We’ll also provide you with a PreSonus Studio One song file, which you can download with those test tones in it.

You will also need an SPL meter; a sound pressure level meter. Most of us are probably not going to have an SPL meter and that is okay. You don’t need a dedicated SPL meter. We’ll point you to where you can get some that you can use right on your phone and using that app you’ll be able to measure SPL levels in your studio. This is useful for when you are calibrating your monitor set up with the Monitor Station V2. As long as you’ve got all those things let’s dive in and talk about how you can setup the Monitor Station V2.

The first thing I’m going to mention is that you should, essentially when starting to set up the Monitor Station V2, zero out the board entirely. Just turn all of the knobs all the way counterclockwise and the reason for this is that you’re going to be doing a lot of things here that initially could potentially cause a lot of noise because you’re using test tones. You don’t want to blow yourself out of the water and you don’t want to do damage to any speakers or of course your hearing. So just zero out the board because you’re actually not going to need to hear a lot of what’s coming out of the Monitor Station V2 until you start to get into calibrating your speakers.

The first thing that you’ll want to do is connect your audio interface to the Monitor Station V2, and I just have a set of quarter inch cables right here; left and right. I’m going to take these and I’m going to plug them into the first input on the back of the Monitor Station V2. There’s a stereo one and a stereo two input on the monitor station as you can see from the main source selector buttons right here. I’m just going to connect my quarter inch cables, as I say, to stereo one. That’s going to be my primary focus, but you can run other sources into the monitor station as well. So now I have run my audio interface out and into my Monitor Station V2.

Next, you may want to set and calibrate the Monitor Station V2’s LED meter. By default, the Monitor Station V2’s LED meter is going to be calibrated so that the red zero VU meter, right here in the middle of the unit, illuminates when the selected source signals reach plus ten decibels unloaded. So, this might work for you and you might want to change this. There are two other options, which is plus four, and plus 18 decibels unloaded. If you want to learn more about what that means, we’ll link some articles for you. You can also give us a call at OBEDIA and we can talk about that as well.

What this basically comes down to is, if you want accurate metering you want to select different metering modes on the Monitor Station V2. As I said, by default, when the selected source; in this case let’s say main source stereo one, reaches plus ten decibels unloaded, that means that you’re going to illuminate the red meters on the center VU meter right here.

Like I say, that may work for some of you and you may want to change that. If you want to change that, you can swap that to plus four. In order to do that you’ll want to press and hold the cue source stereo one button, which is this one right here, while powering on the Monitor Station V2. If you want it to be at plus ten decibels, you’re going to want to hold down cue source stereo two while powering on the Monitor Station V2. Finally, if you would like to set this to plus 18 decibels unloaded, then, you’ll want to press and hold the cue aux source button while powering on the Monitor Station V2. This will allow you to swap back and forth between different LED VU meter calibrations on the Monitor Station V2.

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PreSonus Monitor Station V2 Desktop Studio Control Center – Easily manage multiple sources and monitor speakers from your desktop with three sets of stereo, line-level inputs, a stereo S/PDIF digital input, and three pairs of speaker outputs.