Soundcraft Mini Stagebox 16R – Stage Box for Soundcraft Digital Mixers Soundcraft

The Mini Stagebox 16 is ideal for for expanding the I/O capabilities of any of the Vi or Si range of consoles regardless of whether that I/O is needed locally or hundreds of meters away on the stage. The Soundcraft Mini Stagebox 16 requires only 2U of rack space and, in this tiny footprint, provides 16 recallable mic/line inputs and 8 balanced line outputs, all lifted directly from the Vi1 and the larger Compact Stagebox. The Mini Stagebox 16 comes, as standard, fitted with a single-cable Cat 5 MADI HD interface for connection to the host console using an approved Cat 5 cable. If required this MADI HD interface card can be upgraded after purchase to either redundant (dual-cable) Cat 5 or redundant (dual-fibre) optical fibre by purchasing the appropriate MADI HD interface card.

Compatible Mixers:

• Vi Series (Requires Vi MADI Card)
• Si Impact Series
• Si Performer Series
• Si1, Si1+
• Si2, Si2+
• Si3, Si3+

The new Mini Stagebox range from Harman’s Soundcraft provides a simple solution to stage connectivity offering a lower-cost option for many systems where the modularity and configurability of the larger systems are not required.

The Mini Stagebox 32 (3U) provides 32 analogue inputs and 8 analogue line outputs, with 4 pairs of AES outputs, providing a total I/O capacity of 32 inputs and 16 outputs, with the Mini Stagebox 16 (2U) model providing 16 analogue inputs and 8 line outputs making a 16 x 8 matrix. They connect to any of the Soundcraft Si Expression, Si Compact, Si Performer, Si Series and Vi Series consoles via a MADI card fitted to the option card slot. The Mini Stagebox models contain an integral PSU so are completely self-contained and sit comfortably stage-side.

The new units are part of the ViSi Connect range of interface options for all Soundcraft mixing consoles which includes the Compact and Vi Stageboxes and a range of option cards such as MADI, AES, CobraNet and AES.