No analogue audio out of KBox

[David Battistella]

the only analog out of the Kbox is the two rca connectors (red and white). That’s it! Everything else is digital.

David

Many people use a flying cow box by M-Audio to convert the digital Audio to analog or they use a digital mixer.

[John Davidson]

That’s right – and those two RCA analogue outs aren’t working, which is why I’m confused.

[Aja Sales department]

Hi-

If you have checked your cabling, etc. and you still have a problem, please feel free to contact our tech support group, and they can assist you. All of our Desktop products carry a 3-year warranty, as well as technical support via phone or email.

+1 (530) 271-3190, or support@aja.com

Thank you,

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AJA Video Systems
(530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[John Davidson]

I’ll keep trying to figure it out. I’m wondering is the RCA outs of the KBox are SMPTE and not analogue…

[John Davidson]

but if I haven’t made some stupid mistake, I’ll call.

Thanks!

[Aja Sales department]

The RCA connectors are unbalanced analog audio.

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AJA Video Systems
(530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Bob Zelin]

Hey JNeo –

I urge you to contact AJA support or hire an outside engineer or technician to come in and help you at this point. Your reseller sold you $35 cables – hopefully they should be able to send someone in to help you.

The AJA K-Box RCA connectors are analog audio outputs that will output ANALOG audio from your HD or SDI timelines. Right now, simply bring up color bars and tone internally from Final Cut Pro, and let it play out. You should for right now use an EASY SETUP selection, to make sure that your Audio/Video settings are set correctly, and that one of the tabs is not set incorrectly. Take the K-Box RCA outputs, and with the other end of your cable (which better be a 1/4″ stereo phone plug if it’s going into your mixer) – stick this end into one of the line inputs of your audio mixer. When you raise the faders, and you are letting the BARS play on the timeline, you should hear tone.

There are SO MANY VARIABLES that can be wrong without seeing your system. I have done so many silly things myself, like accidentally going into the INSERT INPUTS of the audio mixer, instead of the line inputs, etc. that will prevent you from hearing the audio. If you have a CD or Cassette audio player lying around, try plugging in the RCA connectors that go into the K Box, into a CD player, etc. – just to make sure that the cables are ok, and that you can HEAR the CD player (or cassette player).
Assume nothing.

Bob Zelin

[John Davidson]

I am a moron.

I had them plugged into the wrong input on my mixer.

Broadcast degree and 10 years of experience folks – look where it gets me.

Thanks guys!

[Bob Zelin]

I am doing this for over 20 years, and recently plugged into the insert inputs instead of the mixer line inputs, and things didn’t work. So the moral is – the more experience you have, the bigger the moron you are, and no one is as big a moron as me. Glad you found the “problem”.

Bob Zelin