Looking for an 8 into 24 balanced splitter

Worlez · 17th December 2006

I'm looking for a way of taking the 8 balanced lines that go from my control room into my studio A and splitting them so that I can send those 8 signals to 3 seperate mixers (two in studio A and one in studio B), so that I can rig up a self-controlled cuemix system. When I was speccing the studio I (foolishly!) didnt think of this at the time, so at the moment there are 8 balanced returns into the studio A and only two in studio B - I build cuemixes in PT and then send them down the lines into the cans via a cheap headphone amp.

I'd like to change all this so that I can send 8 balanced outs from PT (stereo drums, 2 guitars, bass, click, talkback and vox) into 3 seperate mixers so that the artists can dial up their own cuemixes on the fly.

Anybody think of anything that might fit my needs? I did think about using splitter cables and chaining them up, but I'm not sure if I'll run into impedance issues or serious loss of signal doing it this way?

Cheers

Al

Harley-OIART · 17th December 2006

Radial Engineering released a 8 Channel 3 way splitter a short time ago. For a few hundred extra it can be shipped with higher end transformers too. Not as cheap as DIY but a good solution IMHO due to time saved and single rack space feature.

http://www.radialeng.com/re-8ox.htm

Be sure to remeber that any lines that are Transformer Isolated ("Isolated Outs") will not pass phantom power.

Happy Holidays

Seamus TM · 18th December 2006

I found an old distribution amp that I use for cue.
It's got 8 cards in the chassis, and each card splits 1 signal 10 times.
It's very handy, sounds fine, cost $80 and... it's a Neve... hilarious.
It's, probably, the only thing that I'll ever own that says Neve on it.

Worlez · 18th December 2006

Cheers so far guys.

What about if i were to simply make my own mult boxes/cables coming off the 8 TRS lines that already goto the central cable station in the studio? Would this be possible, or would I run into impedance or other issues?

Al

Worlez · 18th December 2006

Bump.

Al

Worlez · 24th December 2006

^

The shure auxpander is one option, but I'm looking for something cheaper really. I thought about building my own using DSUBs, but I'm hoping there is an off the shelf device that could do what I'm looking for.

8 into 16 would do the job as well, if I cant get 8 into 24.

Thanks a lot.

Al

numrologst · 24th December 2006

redco mut boxes I think will do what you are asking.

I got one that I use to send my tape ins to either my digital setup or my tape machine... Then I have my lines from the tape machine and lines from digital split to go to my console line ins.

You can go 8 in to 16 out. Or 16 in to 8 out.

They are dsub mult boxes

17th December 2006	#1
Worlez Lives for gear Joined: May 2006 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 562 Thread Starter	Looking for an 8 into 24 balanced splitter I'm looking for a way of taking the 8 balanced lines that go from my control room into my studio A and splitting them so that I can send those 8 signals to 3 seperate mixers (two in studio A and one in studio B), so that I can rig up a self-controlled cuemix system. When I was speccing the studio I (foolishly!) didnt think of this at the time, so at the moment there are 8 balanced returns into the studio A and only two in studio B - I build cuemixes in PT and then send them down the lines into the cans via a cheap headphone amp. I'd like to change all this so that I can send 8 balanced outs from PT (stereo drums, 2 guitars, bass, click, talkback and vox) into 3 seperate mixers so that the artists can dial up their own cuemixes on the fly. Anybody think of anything that might fit my needs? I did think about using splitter cables and chaining them up, but I'm not sure if I'll run into impedance issues or serious loss of signal doing it this way? Cheers Al

18th December 2006	#3
Seamus TM Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2004 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 1,607	I found an old distribution amp that I use for cue. It's got 8 cards in the chassis, and each card splits 1 signal 10 times. It's very handy, sounds fine, cost $80 and... it's a Neve... hilarious. It's, probably, the only thing that I'll ever own that says Neve on it. __________________ Seamus Upstate New York

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17th December 2006	#2
Harley-OIART Lives for gear Joined: Mar 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,129	Radial Engineering released a 8 Channel 3 way splitter a short time ago. For a few hundred extra it can be shipped with higher end transformers too. Not as cheap as DIY but a good solution IMHO due to time saved and single rack space feature. http://www.radialeng.com/re-8ox.htm Be sure to remeber that any lines that are Transformer Isolated ("Isolated Outs") will not pass phantom power. Happy Holidays

24th December 2006	#6
Worlez Lives for gear Joined: May 2006 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 562 Thread Starter	^ The shure auxpander is one option, but I'm looking for something cheaper really. I thought about building my own using DSUBs, but I'm hoping there is an off the shelf device that could do what I'm looking for. 8 into 16 would do the job as well, if I cant get 8 into 24. Thanks a lot. Al

24th December 2006	#7
numrologst Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 1,955	redco mut boxes I think will do what you are asking. I got one that I use to send my tape ins to either my digital setup or my tape machine... Then I have my lines from the tape machine and lines from digital split to go to my console line ins. You can go 8 in to 16 out. Or 16 in to 8 out. They are dsub mult boxes