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FIRST TEST

We strongly recommend that you test your headset out of the helmet (before installation) to

make it easier for you to experience how even small movements in microphone and speaker positioning

can reduce or improve the sound quality and ease of use. With this knowledge you will have a

benchmark to work to during final helmet installation later and be sure you are getting the very best

out of your system. Please do not use earplugs during this first test as they will hide and/or disguise

much of what we are trying to listen for.

Avoid pressure directly to the front and back covers of the microphones as this could cause damage.

The microphone is floating in an acoustically dampening material to help prevent any helmet vibration

being transmitted through the boom to the microphone as part of the noise cancelling measures. To

move or adjust the microphone please hold it by the outer edges or rubber neck, making sure that the

beige side of the fabric sits flat against and central to your lips. Try to avoid the microphone covers

touching the Velcro on the back of the speakers.

Connect the boom microphone to the headset loom, noting the red connectors will only connect

together if aligned the right way round, making sure that it clicks right in. Connect the headsets black

7 pin plug into the hubs black 7 pin headset lead socket, which automatically turns the hubs power on.

MICROPHONE LOUD SPOT POSITIONING AND USE

The microphone has a critical loud-spot which is the point where it produces the maximum energy from

your speech into the system with the least amount of effort. The system has been carefully designed

and tuned around using this loud-spot (as part of its superior noise cancellation design) and so it is very

important that you understand and use this loud-spot correctly.

While holding one of your own speakers over your ear place the beige side of your microphone against

your lips and project your voice positively through it, as if to someone 5 metres (15’) away. Try gently

moving the microphone around (with it still touching your lips) while making a continuous positive tone

noise to find the microphone LOUD SPOT.

You will know when you have found and used the microphone loud spot correctly because your voice

will reliably activate the VOX, and you know when you have reliably activated the VOX because the

system has SIDE-TONE which amplifies your own voice through your own speakers, but only when

activating the VOX, thus providing you with audio confirmation of correct microphone and VOX use.

Remember; if you can hear your own voice amplified through your own speakers then you are operating

the VOX and so you know that others will be hearing what you hear.

If during this test you hear your voice cutting in

and out while trying to speak, don’t worry as

this is quite normal for first time users until you

have practiced getting used to the system.

It is a natural reaction when in a quiet

environment to speak quietly; it is also natural

to speak even quieter if you hear your own voice

amplified to your own ears louder than you

normally hear yourself, and this, combined with

not being used to using the microphone loud

spot, is why you may have not operated the VOX

correctly.

If the VOX cuts in and out while speaking it is a

natural reaction to want to turn the VOX level

down to make it easier to use, but if you do this

you may turn the VOX lower than necessary

which could cause it to false activate when riding

at higher speeds, so instead of reducing the VOX

level you must ignore the fact that you can hear

yourself through you own speakers, find and

keep using the microphone loud spot, projecting

your voice positively through it, and if required

reduce the master volume slightly which

reduces your side-tone level and so will help you

to naturally speak louder and make it easier to

operate the VOX. Please practise this for a while

to get used to it. Please also remember that

when riding your bike you will be in far more

noise and so will naturally raise your voice and

find using the VOX much easier.

You must speak into

the beige side of the

microphone

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