Sure! That's great! We use a heat shrink tube with the channel number spelled in both name and numeral. I try to include loose clear heat shrink whenever possible so customers can apply their own labels.

Good transformers aren’t affordable.

Hey Mark, I can do it for you. Just shoot me an email: billy@lmcases.com

Billy have made patch using 1x2 aes connections? Do you run into issues with gear using it? I hope I ask this question right.

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yes. The voltage has a separate path to go down, so it most certainly will have some loss. Kirchhoff's Voltage Law. Also, I would use the copper ground and the shield to chassis. They perform different functions in grounding and signal loss. It would be different if they were twisted pair, but they are not.

@@TheDivergentDrummer I am a retired electrical engineer. Contrary to a common first intuition (once mine also) the shield and drain wire should always both be connected ONLY to pin 1, never to the chassis/shell tab. I have been doing live sound and installing/troubleshooting systems for 57 years, and I have seen some really crazy noise problems that were caused by doing what you suggest, combined with other electrical connections to the same chassis, and related to ground loops. Don't do it.

It’s negligible. This style of passive splitter is very common.

FOH. Though in this config, either console could provide it.

@@billylaguardia But will that not harm the other console?

@@kasperlassen2396 Nope. Though only one console should provide phantom. Generally the monitor console provides phantom. Larger mic splits for touring are generally just larger versions of this panel with pin 1 ground lifts per channel. Despite the ubiquity of low cost 8 channel transformer isolated mic splits available, most splitters are not transformer isolated. OB trucks usually want transformers since they are often the 3rd or 4th split in larger shows. They also have longer cable runs to deal with. Hope this helps!

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Hi Karsten, the lacing bar is a custom build designed to interface with this panel.

Hey Dennis, this is an excellent question that will probably end up being a video. The quick answer is that you don't really need an iso transformer in a 1:2 XLR split since all the signal sources are balanced. Mic splits use a unity 1:1 transformer meaning they don't change or alter the signal, just pass it through. Jensen as an example makes a dedicated mic split transformer. This allows manufacturers to use the transformer on a PCB to make the "split" vs soldering multiple cables on a solder lug of a connector. They just take a winding off the transformer that is the duplicated audio signal. The benefits of a transformer are RF rejection and you are electrically isolated (hence the clever name) from anyone else (say FOH or Mons) sharing the original signal. I generally don't spec a transformer on 1:2 splits (an ears rig etc..). I'll use one on 1:3 and 1:4 systems. Hope this helps!

@@billylaguardia has your band run into any interference with this passive unit? I would hate to get rf or ground loops from Foh.

@@ScottFuckinRitchie nope, it has been fine. You occasionally need to lift a ground with a barrel adapter. This is the cost:size trade off when building a split of this size. Most people want something small and cheap, especially when it’s for a band on a minimal budget. Once you add something as simple as a lift switch, the cost and size increases.

@@billylaguardia cool. Thanks for the reply. At least a lift switch isn't nearly as expensive as a transformer.

@@ScottFuckinRitchie With these builds, its not the component cost. Its the labor to wire by hand, and the area that the switch will consume. Though simple toggle switches are small, when multiplied by 32ch , a 3U panel grows quickly in height. This panel is meant to be inexpensive and small - in terms of height and depth.

ditto - I have the same question

The multi core is Mogami 2932. Not sure what you mean by the trunk lining?