I probably worded it poorly, I meant that both passive and active splitters prevented being tied to two phantom power sources and/or phantom passing from one console to the other. However, being able to pass phantom power from one of the console applies to passive splitters while using a separate phantom power supply, either internal or external to the splitter itself, may apply to both passive or active splitters.Brad, I'm curious about these active splits with phantom pass through. All the ones I've seen have all outputs at least electronically if not transformer balanced and the phantom supply comes from the splitter itself to the mics.
Like normal, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
By definition, a passive split will result in signal loss. An active split however can have unity gain or even positive gain. This can be useful where you have a long core run to say FOH and by boosting your mics to line level for that run you end up with more headroom and less noise. Note however that you are then forced to have the sound of the active splitter's preamps not those of the console. You can get caught out by some active splitters though. Say with the XTA DS800, feeding phantom back into the monitor output will switch in a 10dB pad on the channel (affecting all feeds)...
Traditionally splits go at least 3 ways for an event of any size, FOH, Mons, and Broadcast. Except for a handful of specific times, you give broadcast a transformer isolated split. This being because they are so often on a different power supply and normally some cable distance away. The exceptions normally relate to things like your Australian Idol TV shows where Broadcast get the direct feed and FOH & Mons get isolated feeds. That way the audio director retains phantom control etc. and when TV is involved, the audio director is above FOH and Mons by a country mile.
Brad, I'm curious about these active splits with phantom pass through. All the ones I've seen have all outputs at least electronically if not transformer balanced and the phantom supply comes from the splitter itself to the mics.
I think I’m right
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A split snake is the Pro way of doing the task. Unless you will do this often, it may be however too much of an investment.
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