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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS This symbol is intended to highlight that This symbol is intended to warn that there are important operating & dangerous voltages within the product are maintenance instructions in the literature present and constitute a risk of electric accompanying this unit.
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IMPORTANT: MAINS PLUG WIRING INSTRUCTIONS This Signature unit is supplied with a moulded mains plug fitted to the AC mains lead. Mains wiring colours/ connections: The Green/ Yellow or Green wire must be connected to the terminal in the plug marked ‘E’...
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OVERVIEW The Glensound AoIP44 is an economical subrack designed to interface balanced analogue audio circuits to and from a network audio system featuring Dante. It provides 4 audio inputs to the network and also 4 audio outputs from the network on balanced 3 pin XLRs.
PHYSICAL INSTALLATION The Glensound Signature Series have been designed to be highly versatile for installation and can be installed in 19” racks with either their front or rear panels facing the front of the rack. They can also be mounted underneath desks or work tops and can be either permananetly mounted or stood (using the supplied feet) on top of desks or worktops.
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SWAPPING RACK EARS TO ALLOW THE REAR TO BE INSTALLED AT THE FRONT OF A RACK PART No Signature Series PWR ON Keeps Working PIN 1 = GND PIN 2 = +12V (100mA) PIN 3 = -12V (100mA) 100-240V +/-12V - - - 50/60Hz 2.7 Watts First remove the 4 silver button head screws that fix the rack ears onto the front of the unit as shown in the top picture above.
The AoIP44 is located in the commentary booth, and connected into the broadcast network via a single CAT5/6 cable. The Glensound GS-CU001B is the most widely used commentary unit by broadcasters. It provides a programme mix output (direct outputs also available), and has 3 talkback outputs.
2. Interface To News/ Voiceover Studio Programme Send With Stereo Return Monitoring News Studio Control Room News Control 2 x XLR3 2 x XLR3 2 x XLR3 2 x XLR3 stereo stereo (balanced or (balanced or Studio Room programme programme unbalanced) unbalanced) (balanced or...
USER INDICATORS 1. Power On LED 2. Network LED Power On LED The front panel bright blue LED lights when power is available from either the internal mains power supply or the external DC input. Network LED The front panel Network LED is on when data is being transferred to/ from the network. It is not unusual for this LED to flicker quickly.
REAR PANEL CONNECTORS 4. Network 3. Audio Outputs 5. Audio Inputs 6. DC In 7. Mains In Network The Neutricon RJ45 connector provides connectivity to your IP network Audio Outputs Four balanced analogue audio outputs are provided for the return audio from the Dante network on Neutrik XLR plugs.
CONNECTING THE AoIP44 TO A DANTE NETWORK The AoIP44 is a network audio device utilizing the reliable and versatile Dante audio over IP protocol. Dante is a proprietary system (although very widely used) the originators of which are Audinate. The information below is only meant as a very basic guide. Full details of the power of Dante network audio and instructions for using it can be found at www.audinate.com Getting Dante Controller...
Running Dante Controller At the time of writing this manual, Dante Controller looks as per the screenshot below: The AoIP44 will have been named at the factory during test to allow them to be identified by the Dante controller. The format used for the factory name is: ‘AOIP44-serial-XXXX-YYYYYY’.
AoIP44. 1. Finding Out What The Latest Available Version Is Go the AoIP44’s’s web page at http://www.glensound.co.uk/product-details/aoip44/ open the ‘Firmware Latest Version’ Tab. This will give both the latest version numbers/ file names and also the location to download the file from.