Chapter 3 : A Closer Look At Slots And Dante; Introduction; Slots - Mackie DC16 Owner's Manual

DC16 Owner's Manual

Chapter 3 : A Closer Look at Slots and Dante

Introduction

In the previous chapter – Chapter 2 : Getting Started – we suggested selecting the FOH slot
and auto-routing Dante. We're not changing our minds already, but what do these things mean?
What did you do by selecting the FOH slot and auto-routing Dante?
Changing the slot and customizing Dante routing occurs in Setup – ALT + DYN, see pages 70-73 – and Master
Fader, but here we're just taking a look at what took place when you made those selections.

Slots

Each DL32R can handle four slots [FOH, MON, 3 and 4]. This means that multiple DC16s may be connected
to a single DL32R. For example, up to four DC16s may be connected to a single DL32R: one as FOH, one
as MON, one as slot 3 and one as slot 4. That scenario is highly unlikely, but it is possible. Having said that,
the opposite is not true: a single DC16 cannot connect to multiple DL32Rs. But it can easily switch between
them.
As mentioned above, utilizing slots 3 and 4 is unlikely, as it's used on more complicated systems,
such as broadcasting or two FOH engineers. That said, we'll show you a more common setup (besides
a single FOH DC16 connected to a single DL32R). Here we have two DC16's connected to a single DL32R.
One DC16 is used at FOH and another is side stage for MON. They are physically connected via the Dante
cards, FOH Dante A to DL32R Dante A and MON Dante B to DL32R Dante B. And as mentioned previously,
the DL32R is on the network connected to the Wi-Fi port.
We already set up the FOH DC16, but need to select the MON slot for the MON DC16 as described on page
70. Additionally, you will need to set up the DC16 Slot's Follow Mode [Tools > Controllers > DC16 Slot] on
each iPad. More information about this is described on page 62.
FOH
MON
Each DL32R will be labeled the custom name you gave it, but the default is DL32R (which is what we named
it in our example above.).
Renaming the DL32R has already been described in detail in the Master Fader Reference
Guide (in the Tools > Devices section), but did you know that each DC16 may be named,
as well? It is done the same exact way, but for DC16. Doing so requires a fast (and automatic)
reboot.
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