How it works in the path
At load-in, that 472mm depth and 18.5kg weight are the first things you'll feel — this is a substantive piece of iron and it needs a proper road case and a rack with real rail depth. Power draw runs 110W typical and peaks at 165W, so plan your distroOne pair of antennas feeding many receivers through an amplified splitter — replaces the forest of whips and keeps RF levels consistent. accordingly; the dual IECThe standard three-prong appliance power inlet on rack gear — the kettle lead. C13/C14 in spec-sheet speak. power inputs mean you can feed redundantA second copy of anything critical — supply, computer, network path — already running so one failure can’t stop the show. supplies and sleep better during a four-night run. The four gigaACE ports — two to surface, two to stageboxThe I/O endpoint on stage: mics plug in there and one digital line (AES50, Dante) carries everything to the console. The snake, digitized., each with a redundant companion — mean your critical audio network has a hot spare path at every link. The M-Series option slot gives you DanteThe most common audio-over-network standard: dozens of channels of uncompressed digital audio down one ordinary Ethernet cable between Dante boxes., MADIA pro digital format carrying 64 channels on one coax or optical cable. Point-to-point — one sender, one receiver, no network required., or other protocols for connecting to FOHFront Of House — the main mix the audience hears, and the console position out in the room where it gets mixed., broadcast splits, or a multitrack recorder without burning analog outputs.
