Page 24 MX Series — MX36 Operating Instructions
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Operating Your MX36: With and/or Without Redundancy
Each of the three “sets” of four inputs can be considered as having a switched sub-mixer to
select either the Dante streams, the AES pairs or the analogue inputs for the quad mix that
appears at the “top” of the console select switch, A, B or C. The switched sub-mixer can
either be used automatically (so with redundancy/failover) where the MX36 decides what
selection to use based on the Primary and Backup settings chosen, or, if redundancy is
disabled (so either Primary = Analogue, or Backup = OFF), then the Primary selection
manually determines which source appears at the “top” of the console select switch.
Example Setup
Consider a scenario where there is a warm-up act, support, and the main act.
The warm-up is a singer with an acoustic guitar, mixed on-
stage with a small analogue desk. This is connected to the
analogue inputs for set C, and the INPUT SOURCE
PRIMARY set to ANALOG. Note that selecting analogue as
the primary source will automatically disable the choice of
a backup source, and the button for BACKUP will
extinguish.
The support is a full band with a four bus analogue desk
which also has AES outputs. Making use of both the
analogue and digital outputs, they are connected to set B,
and the INPUT SOURCE PRIMARY set to AES. To use the
analogue inputs as the fallover source, the INPUT SOURCE
BACKUP is set to ANALOG.
The main act use a digital console with a Dante card fitted and
also supporting AES and analogue outputs. For the main act, all
three sources are utilised so there are two levels of failover,
Dante > AES > Analogue.
INPUT SOURCE PRIMARY is set to DANTE, BACKUP is set to AES
and , in this mode, ANALOGUE is automatically chosen as the
third failover source.
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