You’re setting everything up and getting all configured when you realize you’ve missed one piece of the puzzle: the splitter snake. Your band just bought a brand-new digital mixing board as well as in-ear monitor units. If you click and make a purchase, I get a small commission. I think this would be the cleanest and most cost effective solution.Disclaimer: Links throughout the article may be affiliated. Even if you bought this will all of the bells and whistles mentioned, it would cost about $850. This would be a much cleaner solution and faster to set up and tear down. Ground lifts would add under $8 per channel. If you can't disable your phantom power on your monitor board you could add isolation transformers to this for under $20 per channel. This could be had for a little over $400. Also neither of these boxes has ground lifts to get rid of ground loops etc.Īnother solution would be to have a snake made that has a 16 (or 24) channel stage box with a 3' trunk to jump over to your existing stage box and a 20' or so trunk to go to the monitor console. Then you would still have quite a mess of cabling on stage to set up & clean up every show. If you buy either of the 2 splitters mentioned in this thread, 16 channels of split would cost you almost $800 after you were done buying the splitter box(es) and 32 lo Z cables to hook it all up. You would want to lift the ground between the split and the monitor console.

A gnd lift may be needed in your split cable. Now if they both get accidentally turned on, might be ok, might not. I would say, as long as only one mixer has phantom turned on, the 24FX won't have a problem with it. what happens should a 24FX see external phantom shoved in?' In a monitor setup, the latter would be typical. However, if you connect, say 24 channels together that could drop to a couple hundred ohms. For example, if it's just one channel and both mixers have phantom power turned on, then there would be 6.8k ohms of isolation. The total resistance between the two supplies would depend on the number of channels you have connected. Phantom power always has some type of build-out resistance, typically 6.8k. That's correct normally, except in this case there is resistance between the two supplies. 'Difference in voltages put together with no resistance between them = short circuit.' But I do see the advantages of an on-stage monitor mix if you've got the staff to man both. The MG24/14FX has enough outs that you may be able to run everything on the one board. Much better than degrading two mixers by frying them.ĭo you use a talkback mic and headphones? If you can run the monitor board FOH, then you can just use the channel insert fx/loop to parallel the second board at line level after the preamp. However, that's not much if you use a passive 2-way splitter, probably 1-3 dB loss. Look at the Whirlwind SB16P or similar.Īnd yes, splitting a signal degrades it by lowering the level of each split, but how much depends on the design of the splitter. It's also rack mount, when you really should have stage box. However, the splitter listed makes no sense for this situation, since it has three-way splitters and you only need two-ways. Passive mic splitters such as the one listed only have one direct connection to allow phantom power from a single mixer, while the remaining outputs are coupled to the output windings of an audio transformer, usually with a ground lift option to stop ground loops. Why do you think they make mic splitters? How fun it would be to blow both mixers, just before you need them. It's far to risky to use Y-cables! One mistake will be much more costly than if you had used splitters.

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