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Post subject: New toy.
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:43 pm
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The one weak aspect of my Passport system is monitors. I do sound for contra dances. There's a caller and a band. The band wants monitors, and they don't want to hear the caller in the monitors.

My compromise is to mix the band on my Passport 500 Pro, then plug a stereo splitter (a little adapter designed to let two people use headphones plugging into one 1/8" stereo headphone jack). One side of the splitter goes through a high quality 1/8" stereo patch cord about 3' long that plugs into the 300 Pro, where I mix in the caller. Callers want crisp treble and little bass because it makes their voices easy to understand, and the Passport 300 Pro easily does this at volume levels that compete with the more full-range band sound coming out of the 500's speakers, and even increases the overall sound of the band, since that gets mixed into the 300 as well.

The other side of the splitter signal goes to a 7' cable that has a 1/8" stereo plug at one end and two RCA plugs at the other.

I plug this second cable into a Mackey SRM 150, and then daisy-chain to two other SRM 150s using XLR cables. The ball-and-chain for me is this 7' cable. At least one monitor needs to be within seven feet of the amp. Not fun. And no, I don't want to run this kind of wiring longer than seven feet.

So, I just found a tiny adapter that has a 1/8" stereo plug at one end that runs into a pack-of-gum-sized box that combines the two stereo channels into mono with a volume knob and an XLR out port so I can run distance to that first monitor.

Ahh, freedom.

I've been looking for exactly this for at least a year now.

The volume knob is a bit extraneous. There are already plenty of places to control volume. Don't need this knob. But I'll just crank it up and leave it there and control volume elsewhere.

The company is Rapco Horizon, and the product is called LTIBLOX. Apparently, the LTI stands for LapTop Interface. It's designed to take output from a computer or iPod or anything else with a 1/8" stereo output (like the Passport 500 Pro), monoize it and allow it to be easily plugged into an XLR port on any pro sound board.

I'm liking this. Yes.


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