ART S8 MIC SPLITTER | Usable for my purpouse?

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:26 pm

What i want to do is spliting the signal from the concert scene.
1 to the FOH mixer and 1 to my stack of MOTU 8Pre's.

I have had little luck finding active/passive mic splitters, but i found this one.

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What can i expect from this product?
What can i NOT expect?

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:51 pm

http://www.artproaudio.com/products.asp?type=88&cat=11&id=137

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:33 am

Look for the whirlwind products, they have a lot of solutions :

http://www.whirlwindusa.com/split.html

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:51 am

Ah. There is one criteria. It has to fit in 2U... 16 channels in 2U

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:16 pm

Well, the ART splitter has one thing (besides 1U) going for it - the phantom power is taken through the direct channel out and isolated from the transformer channel out. This means you can choose whether the FOH desk or your preamps provide the PP, but any quality loss due the the transformer follows that decision. Depending on the input impedances of the FOH desk and your preamps, there will be some dB of signal loss as well.

If you can convince the FOH engineer that you can provide PP reliably from your preamps, I would take the direct out for your recording and supply the FOH with the transformer out.

PS Maybe you are the FOH engineer as well. If so, get convincing.

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:15 pm

Boswell:

In dimensions the ART is perfect for my purpose. I have a 6U rack. 2U with MOTU 8Pre. 2U with ART split? and 2U with multicables.

The signal distribution should not be a problem Wink

Either i do it my self or the FOH engineer doesn't have to know Razz

Have to except the dB loss. I cant imagine it would be more than acceptable and satisfying.

Thanks for the input.

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