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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 121144" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: S16 and phantom popsIn my experience having 3 S16&#039;s connected in series and switching Routing between the last two:1: Using the channel phantom switch, taking a random scene and p-powering several channels and saving the scene;2: Keeping that same scene and then changing the routing of Inputs 17-32 over to the third S16, all phantom lights disappear from the second S16. P-power up several channels in the new routing, save scene.3: Switch scenes back and forth, phantom power goes on and off as appropriate for each scene. Pops.4: Take same scene, go into Preamps page to set phantom in both scenes (separately) so that all phantomed channels in EACH scene are separately phantomed within each scene, but not globally.5: Switch scenes back and forth, phantom stays on in each S16 regardless of whether selected or not. No pops when switching scene with inputs open.In theory your description works, in practice I couldn&#039;t get it to do so, although I haven&#039;t tried again since finding the preamp-page solution. And, clearly, my explanations have been lacking clarity. There was never an argument that the phantoms didn&#039;t need to remain on, the question was how to do so in reality rather than theory. As Tim mentions above obliquely, another way to do it may be to have the third S16 connect to B, but I haven&#039;t tried that, and it involves another CAT run which the OP may not have had available.Dan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 121144, member: 2826"] Re: S16 and phantom pops In my experience having 3 S16's connected in series and switching Routing between the last two: 1: Using the channel phantom switch, taking a random scene and p-powering several channels and saving the scene; 2: Keeping that same scene and then changing the routing of Inputs 17-32 over to the third S16, all phantom lights disappear from the second S16. P-power up several channels in the new routing, save scene. 3: Switch scenes back and forth, phantom power goes on and off as appropriate for each scene. Pops. 4: Take same scene, go into Preamps page to set phantom in both scenes (separately) so that all phantomed channels in EACH scene are separately phantomed within each scene, but not globally. 5: Switch scenes back and forth, phantom stays on in each S16 regardless of whether selected or not. No pops when switching scene with inputs open. In theory your description works, in practice I couldn't get it to do so, although I haven't tried again since finding the preamp-page solution. And, clearly, my explanations have been lacking clarity. There was never an argument that the phantoms didn't need to remain on, the question was how to do so in reality rather than theory. As Tim mentions above obliquely, another way to do it may be to have the third S16 connect to B, but I haven't tried that, and it involves another CAT run which the OP may not have had available. Dan [/QUOTE]

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