External Pre's and Outboard gear

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Howdy all!

I’ll be building a touring FOH system with a S5000. There will be an S5000 at MONs as well, and I believe we would be gain sharing/tracking using a DM48s and a GigAce card. I’d like to incorporate my lunchbox at FOH, but I’ve never gotten the chance to do this on a dLive platform. I’d like to start the vocal and snare-top chains out by going through two SSL Six Pres. I’d also like my master buss to go through a WesAudio Prometheus EQ and Dione comp.

In thinking about the best way to accomplish this, and keep everything phase coherent, especially while using external preamps, is there a best practice for this with no copper going to FOH? Use tie lines? Would that introduce any sample delay?

Cheers,
Ty

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In thinking about the best way to accomplish this, and keep everything phase coherent, especially while using external preamps, is there a best practice for this with no copper going to FOH?

The A/D conversation introduces much delay to the signal chain. You need to compensate it by yourself.

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Ok Steffen, thank you. Do we know how much latency is introduced if the signal path goes: RF receiver - Input socket on DM - Tie Line to FOH - SSL channel strip - input socket on surface? How much will I have to delay all other inputs?