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MX Series — MX24 Operating Instructions
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THANKS
Thank you for choosing an MX24 console switcher for your application.
Please spend a little time reading through this manual, so that you obtain the best possible
performance from the unit and become familiar with its operating requirements.
All XTA products are carefully designed and engineered for cutting-edge performance and
world-class reliability. If you would like further information about this or any other XTA
product, please contact us.
We wish you many years of service from this product and look forward to hearing from you in
the near future.
INTRODUCTION
The MX24 has been designed to offer a uniquely simple solution to the long-standing problem
of routing of multiple mixing consoles outputs to a speaker system / system processor.
Handling 16 inputs in 2U across analogue, AES and Dante networks, these are arranged in
sets of four (to typically support Left-Right-Front Fill and Sub feeds from an individual
console). All AES inputs have SRC(MX24-A). There is one set of four outputs, available
simultaneously across analogue, AES(MX24-A) and Dante(MX24-D) networks with Word Clock
output sync available on AES(MX24-A).
All switching takes place in the digital domain with soft cross-fades primarily to switch
between consoles, each with redundancy if required. The MX24 will automatically select the
secondary source should the primary fail.
If failover with redundancy is not required, then the MX24 can handle up to 4 consoles
(accommodating 2 each on analogue, or digital feeds).
In addition to the quad channel sets for the consoles, there is a fully featured high quality
mono mic preamp for “Voice of God” announcements. This has selectable routing, as well as
clarity filtering in DSP, and switchable 48v phantom power.
There is also a stereo line input, again with “sweetening” filtering, selectable routing, and
fully balanced rear inputs, plus an unbalanced 3.5mm jack front panel input.
As important as the extensive switching and automatic routing capabilities, the MX24 also has
full headphone monitoring of EVERY line individually with extended metering.
All of this is fully user configurable via the front panel — no need to connect a computer or
depend on an app with a wireless connection.