Aviom A360 Personal Mixer

The A360 is Aviom's top-tier personal mixer, and it occupies a specific, non-negotiable role in a Pro16e IEM rig: it is the musician's hands-on interface for their own monitor mix. Where a simpler personal mixer gives a performer basic level control over a handful of channels, the A360 delivers 36 discrete channels with per-channel volume, pan, tone, and grouping — enough resolution that a drummer can balance kick, snare, hat, and three toms as separate feeds, or a vocalist can dial in every band member individually without compromise. At $849 it is a professional tool, not an entry-level courtesy.

In practice, the single Cat5 In and Cat5 Thru ports are what keep this system sane at load-in. All 36 channels ride a single cable in a daisy-chain or star topology, so your stage snake is one Cat5 run per musician rather than a multicore analog loom. The unit draws at most 8 watts and weighs under a kilogram, which means it can clip to a mic stand, sit on a keyboard shelf, or ride in a belt pack cradle without demanding real estate from your rack. The quarter-inch headphone output handles both IEMs via an adapter and over-ear headphones directly, and the output has enough drive for most professional IEM systems without an additional headphone amp in line.

Pick the A360 when your musicians are experienced enough to use what it offers — the channel count and grouping features are genuinely useful to performers who already know what they want in their ears, and genuinely wasted on someone who just needs "more me." If your rig serves a single act with engaged, tech-literate performers, this is the right answer. If you are touring a show where house crew hands a belt pack to a different musician every night with no soundcheck, the learning curve and the price point both argue for a simpler unit. Also confirm your network head — the A360 requires an Aviom Pro16e-compatible distribution or mixing system upstream; it will not work with generic Dante or A-Net without the appropriate hardware.