How to Connect a Wired Microphone to a Speaker using a Mixer

How to connect a wired microphone, a mixer and speakers

Equipment needed:

• Mixer
• XLR Cable(s)
• Powered Speaker(s)
• Wired Microphone

What you do connect the wired microphone into your mixer:

1. Locate the Channel 1 XLR connection on your mixer.
2. Plug the male end of XLR cable into the Channel 1 XLR connection on your mixer.
3. Plug the other end of the XLR cable, the female end, into the wired microphone.

* If you have another wired microphone, plug it into Channel 2 by repeating steps 1-3.

What you do to connect the first speaker:

1. On your mixer, locate the Main Outputs labeled Left and Right.
2. Plug the female end of an XLR cable into the Left Main Output.
3. Plug the other end of the XLR cable, the male end, into the first speaker.

What you do to connect the second speaker:

1. Plug the female end of an XLR cable into the Right Main Output.
2. Plug the other end of the XLR cable, the male end, into the second speaker.