I would like to find or make either a usb OR ethernet cat5e to 16 xlr and 4 trs snake, assuming I could use the cat5e in the dsnake port?? on the QU16?? or the usb port??
Can someone tell me if there is a product available that can do this without me
having to sell my house to buy it??
I did mention that I didn’t want to have to sell my house for it…
Thanks none the less…
Also, I wouldn’t need it to have pre-ampps as the board already has them,
theoretically and realistically keeping the cost down/lower…
Not to be ugly but your house is surely worth more than $1000. There really is no other path other than a copper snake. QU vs GLD is that it offers pres either local or via DSnake. Very helpful in many situations.
Thanks, but I just read that someone can use Layer 2 network switches and media converters with the dSNAKE port?? provided they support Fast Ethernet (100Base-TX) connections (ACE and dSNAKE are Ethernet 802.3 IEEE Layer 2 compliant) so, I’m trying to sort all of this info out…
You have to have done kind of qualified interface on the other end. A switch means nothing. It can’t pass phantom power it can’t pass analog audio. It really services no purpose.
Yes, an AB168 is the minimum you’ll need to connect the digital dSnake protocol with the analog world. As George said, if digital seems to be too expensive or you insist to use the preamps of the desk, a heavy analog snake will be the way to go.
The phrase Media Converter refers to other ethernet carrying media like optical fibers instead of copper, it has nothing to do with “multimedia” or audio.
Oh I see, I would like to have a snake with x16 xlrs, (with no preamps as the QU16 already has them on the xlr ins) with maybe 4 trs on the stage side, then preferably run
to the console with either USB, (or if possible, dSNAKE) in…
It seems dSNAKE would not be able to happen unless someone were to make a DIY kit mirroring their protocol? so then, I wonder if to USB input is possible as I understand
that the QU16’s USB port is bidirectional?
Thanks for the offer Lou, but I think I’m going to have to bite the bullet and get
an ab168, (even though it pizzes me off to be bullied into a proprietary protocol!)
Eurekarem, sometimes, manufacturers design their equipment to use products that have already proven themselves as reliable, like CAT5/6 cable. Many times though, they come up with their own protocal to use on that CAT 5 cable that is NOT compatible with other companies like Yamaha, Soundcraft, Digico etc. It is common for guys like you and I to think that these companies do this so we have to buy “THEIR” accessories like stage boxes, power supplies etc. and we just feel trapped, or bullied as you put it into buying their stuff. Sometimes that is no doubt the case, Sony and Apple just to mention a few are notorious for that greed, but we still use their stuff because it just works…well most of the time
The convenience of a digital stage box and a simple CAT5 cable sure beats the heck out of a 100 plus pound snake.
May I suggest that you purchase an AR2412 instead of an AB168,… you may find it is not any more expensive, in fact maybe cheaper, and you get a lot more. With the AR2412 connected to your Qu16, you can now use the ST-1 and ST-2 as additional microphone inputs,… on the Qu16 that would give you a total of 20 mic inputs. To not waste mic inputs, it is ideal in most cases to use ST-1 and ST-2 for stereo sources like stereo overhead mics, or a stereo keyboard.
You haven’t been bullied; you chose the Qu system for good reasons. It is a system however, and if you want to build something to fit the protocol, go for it, but I’d rather be mixing music than designing a kluge