Silicon_Knight
Active Member
My first thought for a temp setup with that number of inputs would be to run a snake direct to the stage. If that's not an option I'd go with your 2nd of patching a snake from the mixing spot to the patchbay or permanent booth and moving the console. I don't know about you, but the list of things I'd rather do before mixing a live show using a laptop is theoretically limitless. If you were to go that route, HDMI has signal degradation after about 15-30'. You'd need some sort of repeater or balun to switch it over to Cat 5 to get your monitor over a 40' run. Same with USB, I think you get 15' out of that if memory serves me.
If you're really set on not moving the console you might want to look into some sort of remote desktop option. If you're doing this on a Windows machine it's pretty straightforward with RDP, but again you're now running a show on a laptop...remotely. If it's over WiFi all bets are off when you're audience shows up and floods the WiFi bandwidth with their phones. Run ethernet to the temp location, setup a laptop and RDP into whatever computer is running Universal Control.
I'm assuming the Presonus doesn't have a digital snake?
Although I agree with a temp setup (e.g. temp mixer with snake b/w old-new booth locations), I'm not sure that the amount of signal degradation of HDMI at 40' would be significant in this application (we are running a show right now with HD projectors at the end of 90' cables, and it seems to work very well - at least for a temporary setup). USB on the other hand, would likely require some assistance at those distances.
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