Re: M7CL-48ES and SB168-ES with PM5D-RH
Because this was an install, it was worth doing the legwork to make everything work right. It took a long time to make everything work correctly (a few days), but now it has been working flawlessly for a few years. If this was a temporary setup, I would have just wanted an analog split and been done. As far as I know, its not 'clunky' in the sense that it always works. One note, is that all mixers have to be on for the system to work as a ring configuration. So, if it was a small event with just a speaker talking, all units had to be running to let Ethersound make its loop. Also, the FOH PM5D sent its stereo mix to the amp room via AES, not through the stage boxes, since it was going to a lake processor with digital inputs.
I don't know anything about the Dante card, so I can't help you there.
Hope that helps.
