- Hi, I'm Jordan from Kettner Creative.
In this video, I'm gonna show you how to connect a phone
to your sound system
if you're doing a phone interview.
With this solution,
the person on the phone will be able to hear
your presenter talking through a microphone
through the sound system.
They'll get that dry, proper audio feed.
And then your guests in the room with you
will hear the guests on the phone,
through the in-person sound system
without creating a feedback loop.
Now, the key to making this work is this little cable here.
Every time I pull this out,
I get made fun of.
It's a bit of an abomination of a cable,
but you know what?
This has saved a lot of events.
A lot of times we've had a presenter come up to us and say,
"Hey, here's my phone.
"I have somebody on the phone.
"I need to connect them to the sound system."
And I pull this thing out of my Pelican case
at a live event and it saves it.
I often get eye rolls from an A1, or something like that,
because this cable's not really supposed to exist,
to be perfectly honest.
It's really not.
I don't know what the pro way is to do this,
but I bought this off Amazon maybe seven years ago.
I do have a link, I found a similar cable to Amazon.
So if you wanna check that out,
check out the link in the description.
But maybe twice or three times a year,
this little $10 cable will save an event.
So it's something that I would recommend
that you throw in your Pelican case
if you get the chance to buy it.
So here's how it works.
On this end of the cable, it's a TRRS.
So, from your phone, you will get the microphone.
It's basically a headset cable
that converts into a sound system.
So you get the microphone audio in stereo
coming from the phone,
and then you get to feed your phone XLR from an aux
on your sound system, if that makes sense.
But to make this work,
this end of the Jack needs to be TRRS, okay?
And then it goes through a stereo output,
and it receives from XLR.
I'm gonna show you how to hook that up.
So even if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack
or a headset jack, you can get an adapter for it.
The standard from Apple lightning to headset adapter
does have the TRRS that you need.
So you connect those two.
And then you're gonna plug that
into the bottom of your phone.
Now in this analog audio console that we have here,
I don't have an XLR send,
so I need to convert it on the Yamaha MG10,
this is balanced, so I can just use a TRRS to XLR.
So I'm gonna plug that in to my aux send my audio mixer,
I'm going to plug that into the XLR input
on this janky little cable and adapter
that seems to work and,
and it gets eye rolls from every audio engineer
I've ever worked with.
Okay, so what we did right there is that allows us,
I'm just going to reset the aux on this board.
So say we have microphones
in channels one, two, three, and four
that we want to send to the phone.
So how we can do that is we can turn these up
one, two, three, four.
So now those will go through the aux,
out this cable and into the phone.
So that's what the phone will hear here.
It'll hear those four microphones that say are on the stage.
This also works if you're a radio show,
or a podcast, or something like that
with a live phone interview.
Now we want to make sure that these four people on the stage
hear the person from the phone.
So to do that, we're gonna plug this headphone
to stereo quarter inch jack into line five, six
of the stereo inputs.
So what we have here, we obviously want the aux
on this five, six channel turned all the way down.
You don't want the speaker on the phone talking,
it comes into five, six,
and then if this was up,
this would route back to the phone,
you don't want the speaker to hear himself.
You just want the speaker to hear those four microphones.
So there we have it.
Now we just need to test it.
I'm gonna hit play.
So this'll test to make sure that we're hearing stuff
from the phone, and we are so that's great.
And then the only real way to test,
you'd have to phone somebody, but it does work.
You'll just have to take my word for it.
This is a lot easier to hook up with the digital console
as well, or something with the XLR aux.
But this solution does work.
They'd be able to hear those four microphones,
and everybody in your room here
would be able to hear out through five, six.
So there you have it.
This one little $12 cable from Amazon.
There's a link in the description below,
but it'll allow you to have a phone interview
through your sound system at your event,
your podcast, your radio show, or anything like that.
I hope this was helpful.
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if you have any questions.
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