How it works in the path
The thru connectors are the detail worth understanding at load-in. Each channel has both a female XLRThe standard 3-pin locking connector for mics and balanced line signals — pin 1 is the shield, pins 2 and 3 carry the balanced pair. input and a male XLR thru, which means the TX4 can sit between a source and a local destination simultaneously — feed it from a splitter, pass one output to a floor wedgeA floor monitor speaker angled up at the performer — the thing IEMs replace, and the thing you fall back on when they die. amp or local IEMIn-Ear Monitor — earpieces that replace floor wedges, feeding each player their own mix. The reason this whole rack exists. transmitter, and send the other down the Cat5Standard network cable grades. In an audio rig one cheap Cat5e run can replace a 48-channel copper snake; AES50 wants it shielded. run to the rack. That saves a splitter on channels where you only need two destinations. The passive design also means any standard Cat5 or Cat6 cable works, which matters on a festival where you're borrowing cable from a stranger's trunkThe main multichannel run between stage and console — one fat multicore (or one Cat5e, these days) carrying everything at once..
