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Cat Snake stageboxes
Four mic or line feeds down one Cat cable, and back out to XLR at the far end.
They need shielded cable. Pin 1 travels on the shield, so unshielded cable gives you no screen and no phantom power.
These carry audio, not Ethernet. Don't plug one into a network switch.
Spec
- Channels
- 4 x XLR3 each end, over one RJ45 run
- Type
- Passive: one channel per pair, pin 1 on the cable's shield
- Cable
- Shielded Cat5e or Cat6
- Size
- 50 x 180 x 52 mm, 450 g