The majority of mic/line inputs and system outputs, analogue or digital, will be located at the iDR10 Mix-Rack, the 19” shockmounted & flightcased ‘heart’ of the system featuring the iDR-64 Mix Engine DSP. This is linked to the control surface via two Cat5 cables – one for system control using Ethernet, and one for the EtherSound digital audio network, providing a further 32 inputs and outputs located in the rear of the console for sources such as music players and sound effects, inserting favourite processors, outputs to speaker management devices, recording and more.
The Mix-Rack could be placed next to the surface and fed from the stage using an existing copper multicore in a similar way to traditional FOH consoles, or you could benefit from lower cost, longer run CAT5 cable connection by keeping the Mix-Rack on stage next to the sources. This example shows the Allen & Heath PL-Anet connection being used on stage to daisy-chain remote controllers for personal monitor control by individual musicians. The FOH surface continues its EtherSound network to route signals to additional ES equipped devices for delay fills and other remote feeds.
This is just one example of many that emulate large scale 64 channel distributed live sound systems while being reassuringly easy to operate, taking up very little space and providing the benefit of reliable recall of saved settings show after show. |
