I want to start using a PreSonus StudioLive 16 channel desk to multitrack all my band's shows. We have our own soundguy now, but almost all the venues we play have house sound systems.

Optimally, we'll be able to just plug our SL into their mains and monitors, and mix right from it. But in situations where that is not practical, we'll need some sort of splitter.

In doing some research for a mic splitter I'm building it became obvious that I should have one isolated out and one pass through instead of just building essentially 16 y-cables in a box. There are a number of reasons and what I want to know is if there is a way to do it without buying 16 trannies. Transformers are the right way to go but the Jensens are cost prohibitive and so are Lundahl.

Just to have as an option, I'd like to try and record my guitar direct AND through an amp simultaneously.

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.

I've been recording live shows for a relatively short time, with good/great results. Ive been using a mix of Y cables and running my own mics into a digi and octopre.

Hello good sound folks!

Hi,

I am going to be recording a show this weekend in Detroit and need some advice.

I will be recording with the following:

G5 1.8 Dual
RME 800
PreSonus Firestudio
PreSonus LT Digimax

I bought a Y cable splitter because before I would simply plugin a single guitar cable from my Behringer xenyx 802 into my pod xt live. There is a "L" and an "R" on the MAIN OUT for the xenyx 802 and I would just plug into the left channel and then record. Since I was only technically plugged into one channel I'd assume I was recording in mono.

Hello!

I made my 1st y splitter. my design is a bit different than others I've seen so I want to make sure there is no obvious quality problem with my design before I wire all my mic preamp outs this way. I'm trying to incorperate a very poor quality 8 channel XLR to XLR snake to send for headphone monitoring to save money.