Radial Catapult Rack TX

The Catapult Rack TX is the send end of Radial's passive Cat 5/6 analog snake system — a 1U box that accepts 12 balanced XLR inputs and multiplexes them down to three Cat 5/6 runs, four channels per cable. It lives in your FOH, monitor, or playback rack and pairs with a Catapult Rack RX at the stage end to complete the link. The pitch is straightforward: instead of hauling a heavy copper multicore from the rack to stage, you're running lightweight Cat 5/6 — cable you can buy at any hardware store, terminate in the field, and stuff into a much thinner conduit.

Passive and drawing zero watts, the TX adds nothing to your power budget and introduces no latency — there's no conversion happening, just clever pin-pairing on the RJ45 connectors with transformer isolation built into the system. At 2.7 kg and 200 mm deep, it's a dense but manageable 1U. The three Cat 5/6 outputs give you flexibility: run all three to a single RX for the full 12 channels, or split them to different destinations if your rig calls for it. Because it's analog the whole way through, what you plug in is exactly what comes out — no driver installation, no dante config, no network switch required.

This belongs in a rig where you need a clean, reliable analog snake without the weight and bulk of a traditional multicore, and where you're already committed to the Catapult ecosystem on both ends. It's a strong fit for touring IEM rigs and playback setups that travel frequently and need a fast, repeatable cable run to stage. It's not the right call if you need more than 12 channels, if you're working in an environment where Cat 5/6 runs might get confused with actual network cable, or if your stage end doesn't have a Catapult RX waiting for it — this unit does nothing without its receive-side partner.