sdauditorium
Active Member
To meet the needs of additional wired mic inputs on stage that we required for our new sound system, one of the bids spec'd a Whirlwind ES4 receiver/transmitter with 16 inputs using Cat5 cable between the two units. The literature seems to suggest that you need to have the receiver as well which would then use XLR cables to run from the receiver outputs to the control surface. It can be configured to run with various protocols, so my thought was to go with Dante or Cobranet instead of EtherSound. Is there any reason that I'm failing to notice which would prevent me from only running the transmitter directly into our LS9 with a MY16-CII (CobraNet) or DANTE-MY16-AUD expansion card and circumvent the receiver?
This is what I'd prefer to do and then just run a few extra network cable drops to possible mix positions throughout the house instead of worrying about fanouts with straight XLR connections.
ES4 Snake manual (very limited): http://whirlwindusa.com/media/uploads/es4_manual.pdf
This is what I'd prefer to do and then just run a few extra network cable drops to possible mix positions throughout the house instead of worrying about fanouts with straight XLR connections.
ES4 Snake manual (very limited): http://whirlwindusa.com/media/uploads/es4_manual.pdf