I have an Apollo x8 that I have been utilising live the past 6 months as a FOH touring engineer.
So far I have been using it mainly to insert into certain key channels (vocal and kick-drum) and onto my group buses on a large selection of house-desks. I use console.
It’s been working well most of the time – especially when I had a rented c3500 for a run and didn’t have to plumb it in fresh every day!
I have a couple of balanced TRS jack to xlr looms (one male xlr, one female) that I have been connecting the Apollo to the D-live surface with, but as I am utilising one of the local inputs for a talk-back mic I only have 5 inputs left to play with on the D-live.
I have bought a pair of SPDIF to xlr cables so I can link to the digital in’s on the D-live, which buys me a couple of channels but am looking for a solution that will give me more options to fully utilise the Apollo x8.
This is a brave-new-world for me so please excuse my ignorance;
from what I have seen from Devan’s video above it seems that one option is getting a DX168 and carrying-on inserting analogue onto the extra channels of I/O.
A few people have mentioned that using ADAT could be better option going forward, and that it may be possible to link the Apollo to the D-live through a Ferrofish Verto32 into my dante card.
I am already utilising the primary slot in the dante card for multitracking for use with virtual soundcheck; could I use the secondary slot on the dante card for the ADAT inserts?
Anyone have any thoughts on what the most stable, affordable and latency light solution might be?
Thanks in advance
