Re: Cable
I'm glad you are asking these questions, Cary.
I've read Per's response 3 or 4 times and when I get a glimmer of what's going on I lose it and have to start over. I think that setting up this pile of gear and messing around with it and seeing what happens will be the only way I'm going to grok it.
Which console is controlling the Head Amps of which inputs?
What happens if instead of the connection sequence you gave in your example, the 3 S16's are connected as they normally would be, A of the first S16 connected to A of the Monitor Console, B of the Monitor Console connected to A of the House Console, then A of a third console connected to B of the 3rd S16?
Do the first two consoles get to pick which inputs they are looking at on the S16's (up to 32) and the third console can pick the unused inputs? And regarding connecting to that B connector on the S16, I thought the A connector was the only one sending signal to the console. How does the B connector send signal? Since the order of inputs (1-32) depends on the sequence of S16 connections, with the first A connector being 1-16 and the second 17-32, while the order of outputs depends on rotating that knob to dial up +8, is there a +16 somewhere that lets you get outputs 17-24? Or does that output sequencing occur when going in the B connector?
While I'm asking questions, this has assbit me several times: When in the Routing pages for AES50 outputs, to get the outputs of the console sent down (up?) the Ethernet snake that setting needs to be at OUT 1-8 or whatever rather than LOCAL.
What does LOCAL mean? I looked in the Wiki and didn't find a definition.
Thanks, Per, for talking through this and going slow for us.
No problem on the relative tardiness; it's been fun in a way seeing how quiet this forum is, given that everyone seems to have had all their questions answered and we are just happily using the consoles in their various wonderful iterations that we wouldn't have imagined in the early days. I must say I'm really quite happy with the family of consoles and their niche uses. It's fun having the right tool for the job.
