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Appendix B: Technical Specification
This section provides the full technical specification for the XL8 Live Performance
System, which includes the DL431 mic splitter, DL451 I/O unit, DL461 router and
DL471 DSP.
Due to a policy of continual improvement, the Klark Teknik Group reserves the right to
alter the function or specification at any time without notice.
XL8 general statistics
Dedicated XLR connections 4 x 6U rack splitters house:
• 96 x splitter mix/line inputs
• 2 x 96 splitter outputs
• 1 x 96 transformer isolated splitter outputs
Configurable XLR connections 5 x 3U rack configurable I/O boxes house
120 x I/O slots in 15 x 8 wide blocks of:
• 8 x mic/line inputs or
• 8 x line outputs or
• 4 x (stereo) AES3 in and 4 x (stereo)
AES3 out
Typical configuration
(assuming all analogue I/O)
96 x mic/line inputs with splits
16 x mic/line auxiliary inputs
(total mic input count of 112)
32 x aux/group outputs
16 x matrix outputs
1 x stereo master output
1 x mono master output
2 x stereo local monitor outputs
49 x assignable I/Os
Input audio processing 96 x dual slope high and low pass filters
96 x 4-band parametric EQs with 3 shelf modes
96 x 4-mode creative input compressors
96 x input gates
Mix/output audio processing 51 x out 6-band parametric EQs with shelf and
multiple high and low pass modes
51 x 5-mode creative output dynamics
16 x assignable Klark Teknik output GEQs
Assignable audio processing 16 x assignable stereo effects (that can be set
as additional stereo GEQs)
Mixing control assistance 8 x auto mutes
8 x surface population groups
12 x VCA faders
12 x VCA associated population groups
1000-scene snapshot automation
Resilience N+1 and fault tolerant modular system with
dual redundant system interconnections