Quick Start Guide

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1 Getting Started
1.1 Quick Start Guide
Monitor Station V2
Owner’s Manual
2. Connect your primary monitoring system (such as a pair of powered nearfield
reference monitors) to the Monitor Station V2’s A L/R Speaker outputs.
3. If you have a second set of monitors, connect them to the Monitor Station V2’s B
L/R Speaker outputs.
4. If you have a third pair of monitors or a subwoofer, connect them to the Monitor
Station V2’s C L/R Speaker outputs.
Note: If using a subwoofer, make sure the Monitor Station V2 is set to Combo mode or
Toggle A/B mode, as described in Section 2.3.1.
1.1.6 Calibrating Your Speaker Levels
Speaker calibration sets the output level of your speakers so that
a specific level shown on the Monitor Station V2’s meter equals a
specific acoustic level in your studio as measured in dB SPL. The
meter level most typically used for calibration is 0 VU.
Calibrating your speakers provides a few important benefits. First, calibration
establishes a comfortable maximum level for your studio environment.
A healthy monitoring level for a small control-room environment would
be 78 dB. For a large environment, 85 dB makes more sense. You can
estimate the best listening level for room sizes in-between.
Calibration also ensures that your left and right speakers are precisely balanced
with each other. This enhances stereo imaging and, more critically, allows you
to trust the stereo panning you hear as you work. When you perform a speaker
calibration, you separately set the level of each speaker to the same value.
Note: PreSonus does not suggest that the calibration method described here is
necessarily the best or the only worthwhile method of speaker calibration. Different
studio environments—with different equipment, clients, and purposes—may
benefit more from one of the many other methods available. If you want to calibrate
your studio monitors using a different method, we encourage you to do so.