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KL-8™ Owner’s Manual
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Headphone Safety Warning
Caution: Very Loud Amplifier
See back page for details
HEADPHONES AND CUE SWITCHES
The headphone outputs and the cue select switches on the KL-8 are designed to allow you to silently monitor your
overall mix, or select individual inputs and listen to them without feeding the outputs on stage. This is helpful when
testing your connections, checking patch settings on individual keyboards, or adjusting a digital soft synth.
When the red CUE LED beside the headphone level control is flashing, this means that one of more of the CUE
switches has been engaged on CH 1-4. Pressing a cue switch on any channel will reroute that input directly to
the headphones, while also muting the output of that channel so that it will not feed the MAIN, MONITOR, or AUX
outputs.
Once all of the cue switches have been disengaged, the red CUE LED will turn off, and the headphone outputs will
be fed a copy of the overall mix, so you can hear what will feed the Monitor outputs. If you turned up the headphone
level when testing an input with the CUE switch, ensure that you turn back down before disengaging the CUE to
protect your hearing.
STEREO INSERT FOR VOLUME PEDALS & EFFECTS
The KL-8 is equipped with a stereo insert point that will allow you to control the overall output of the KL-8 using an
external volume pedal, bus compressor or effects device. This gives you the ability to control all of your keyboards
with a single pedal, or feed them all through a particular stereo effects unit. To connect to the INSERT SEND and
RECEIVE jacks, use
insert cables
wired with 1/4” TRS to 2x TS connectors.
Any device connected across the insert points will affects the MAIN OUTPUTS, MONITOR OUTPUTS, and the USB
audio feed to your computer. Note that when the KL-8 is set to RECORDING mode, any audio output from your
computer over USB will not be affected by these insert points.
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