I am in the design phase of building an In-ear monitor rig, consisting of a X32 rack mixer and an audio interface for backing tracks, with a passive, transformerless splitter.
Setup is as follows:
1. 16ch mic in chassis XLR panel, wired directly into the male 16ch XLR panel on the back (to FOH), as well as Male XLR connectors that connect to the X32 mixer. (one mic channel in mixer will be unused, to fit in click)
2. 6ch (+1ch click only to in ear mixer) of backing tracks from the audio interface TRS connectors, wired into panel on the back to FOH, as well as TRS for our in ear mixer.
3. 10ch output from mixer TRS and XLR directly to XLR panel on the back. (no worries here)
The question is:
How and where would you physically implement the splitting of the signal?
The problem i'm imagining is that the cups on the XLR connectors only really fit one cable in them properly, but wiring a seperate splitting point for the signal would be another potential point of failure, not to mention a lot of work. If going for this method, how do you approach wiring them in the XLR connector, just twist the pair up before hand? Using two shields at least does not fit, would you just trim the shield and use the drain connector?
I thought of using wire jointers, but that is again a point of failure and physically hard to implement, as there would need to be a place to mount them.
An extra question about grounding:
Would you rather keep all grounds seperate, or connect the in and outgoing grounds?
also physical space doesn't allow for a seperate ground lift for each channel, but is there any use in adding a switch to seperate the outgoing split from the ground?
Thanks a lot!
Setup is as follows:
1. 16ch mic in chassis XLR panel, wired directly into the male 16ch XLR panel on the back (to FOH), as well as Male XLR connectors that connect to the X32 mixer. (one mic channel in mixer will be unused, to fit in click)
2. 6ch (+1ch click only to in ear mixer) of backing tracks from the audio interface TRS connectors, wired into panel on the back to FOH, as well as TRS for our in ear mixer.
3. 10ch output from mixer TRS and XLR directly to XLR panel on the back. (no worries here)
The question is:
How and where would you physically implement the splitting of the signal?
The problem i'm imagining is that the cups on the XLR connectors only really fit one cable in them properly, but wiring a seperate splitting point for the signal would be another potential point of failure, not to mention a lot of work. If going for this method, how do you approach wiring them in the XLR connector, just twist the pair up before hand? Using two shields at least does not fit, would you just trim the shield and use the drain connector?
I thought of using wire jointers, but that is again a point of failure and physically hard to implement, as there would need to be a place to mount them.
An extra question about grounding:
Would you rather keep all grounds seperate, or connect the in and outgoing grounds?
also physical space doesn't allow for a seperate ground lift for each channel, but is there any use in adding a switch to seperate the outgoing split from the ground?
Thanks a lot!