Peavey CAB 16I manual

CAB ™ 1 6 Series Cobr aNe t ™ A udio Bridge CAB 1 6i CAB 1 6o CAB 1 6d User Manual[...]

Intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’ s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. Intended to alert the user of the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the produ[...]

GENERAL CAUTIONS AND WARNINGS! To prevent electrical shock or potential fire hazards, do not expose the CAB 16 to moisture or rain. Before using this product, read the user manuals for further warnings and cautions. The following cautions should be carefully observed when installing, wiring or using this product: DO NOT use any other power supply o[...]

Pa g e 4 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Thank You! 7 What’s In The Box? 7 Covered Products 7 8 Assumptions 8 Installation 9 Hardware vs. Software Devices 10 The Test View 11 Panel Features Connections Setting The Hardware Base Address 30 Setting The CobraNet Audio Bundle 31 Testing, Testing..... 32-33 Testing, Testing[...]

Pa g e 5 Pea v e y Electronics Corp. T able Of Cont ents The CAB ™ components and their relationships (Figure 1) 10 The CobraNet ™ audio transport devices and their control panels (Figure 2) 10 Recommended Test View Configuration (Figure 3) 11 Typical Network Connections (Figure 4) 22 Direct Connection Example (Figure 5) 22 Analog and Digital A[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 6 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAUTION! The CAB 16 Series products are Ethernet (CobraNet ™ ) network products designed to operate on a network back- bone or infrastructure. The design, implementation and maintenance of this infrastructure is critical to the opera- tion and perf[...]

Welcome Pa g e 7 Pea v e y Electronics Corp Thank You! Thank you for purchasing the CAB ™ 16 Series CobraNet ™ Audio Bridge. This product is designed to provide years of trouble-free operation, and high qual- ity audio performance. We sincerely hope that you enjoy your new CAB 16 Series product, and will find other products in the Peavey Archit[...]

Pa g e 8 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Features Assumptions - CobraNet ™ ethernet audio transport - Single rack space package - Forced air cooling - Front panel analog audio metering - Front panel network status monitoring - 24 bit D/A and A/D converters - Discreet analog design - Digit[...]

Inst allation Pa g e 9 Pea v e y Electronics Corp Installation The CAB ™ 16 Series product is designed to mount in a standard EIA electron- ic equipment rack. Because the CAB 16 includes forced air cooling, adding rack mounted vent panels is not required for most installations. However, it is recommended that common sense be applied to large inst[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 1 0 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Hardware vs. Software Devices The CAB 16 Series of products is an integration of physical hardware and software. Within CobraNet ™ , there are even further integrations, that being the network itself, and the actual piece of equipment, in this ca[...]

Hardw are & Sof tw are Pa g e 1 1 Pea ve y Electronics Corp The Test View In order to properly use this manual, it is recommended that a basic MediaMatrix view file be configured. This view file shoul d have a minimum number of components and should include one each of the CAB ™ 16i and CAB 16o, or, it should match exactly your specific syste[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 1 2 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAB 16i Software Device Features LINK LED This LED will turn ON when a valid connection has been established between the CAB 16 and the network switch. This function is duplicated on the front panel of the CAB 16i. ID The four digit number is the u[...]

Software Features Pa g e 1 3 Pea v e y Electronics Corp CAB 16o Software Device Features LINK LED This LED will turn ON when a valid connection has been established between the CAB ™ 16 and the network switch. This function is duplicated on the front panel of the CAB 16o. ID The four digit number is the user-defined Hardware Base Address. The ran[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 1 4 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved LINK LED This LED will turn ON when a valid connection has been established between the CAB 16 and the network switch. This function is duplicated on the front panel. ID The four digit number is the user-defined Hardware Base Address. The range is [...]

Software Features Pa g e 1 5 Pea ve y Electronics Corp ERROR Indicates an error has been detected on the incoming audio data stream. There is a single LED for each digital channel (2 audio channels each). SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER DISABLE Disables the on-board sample rate converters. The audio source must be locked to the CobraNet network for audio to [...]

Pa g e 1 6 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual CAB 16i Front Panel Features 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 AUDIO METERS Peak reading LED ladder displays indicating audio input level in the ana- log domain. Signal level is displayed after the adjustable gain stage and before the A/D con- verters. HAR[...]

P anel Features Pa g e 1 7 Pea ve y Electronics Corp CAB 16i Rear Panel Features (shown without the Euro connectors attached) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 IEC POWER CABLE RECEPTACLE The included removable IEC power cable connects here. Use only the supplied cable. POWER SWITCH Applies mains AC power to the CAB ™ 16. LINK OUT CONNECTOR BNC connector to transmi[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 1 8 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAB 16o Front Panel Features 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 AUDIO METERS Peak reading LED ladder displays indicating audio input level in the ana- log domain. Signal level is displayed after the adjustable gain stage and before the A/D con- verters. HAR[...]

P anel Features Pa g e 1 9 Pea ve y Electronics Corp CAB 16o Rear Panel Features (shown without the Euro connectors attached) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 IEC POWER CABLE RECEPTACLE The included removable IEC power cable connects here. Use only the supplied cable. POWER SWITCH Applies mains AC power to the CAB ™ 16. LINK OUT CONNECTOR BNC connector to transmi[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 2 0 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAB 16d Front Panel Features 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 METER SELECT This meter toggles in the function of the front panel audio meters between input and output. The corresponding LED indicates the active meter function. AUDIO METERS Peak reading[...]

P anel Features Pa g e 2 1 Pea v e y Electronics Corp CAB 16d Rear Panel Features (shown without the Euro connectors attached) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IEC POWER CABLE RECEPTACLE The included removable IEC power cable connects here. Use only the supplied cable. POWER SWITCH Applies mains AC power to the CAB ™ 16. LINK OUT CONNECTOR BNC connector to transm[...]

Pa g e 2 2 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Basic CobraNet Network Connections The CAB 16 Series products feature 4 different connection types. (Refer to the Rear Panel Details.) First in priority is the CobraNet ™ network port. This RJ-45 connector is designed to connect with standard, of[...]

Audio & RS-485 Connections Pa g e 2 3 Pea v e y Electronics Corp Audio Connections The second connection is audio. Each audio connection on the CAB ™ 16i and 16o is a single three-wire, balanced analog circuit. The connections on both of these units is identical, except one is an input, the other an output. The method is the same. For the CAB[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 2 4 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Using S/PDIF with the CAB 16d Wire & Cable The CAB 16d has been designed for use with AES3 (AES/EBU) and S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format) digital audio signals. The CAB 16d is shipped from the factory to accommodate AES3 digital a[...]

S/PDIF Connections Pa g e 2 5 Pea v e y Electronics Corp To drive an S/PDIF input from the CAB 16d’s out- put, a similar circuit must be implemented. Again, the impedance of the CAB 16d must be matched to properly terminate to the S/PDIF input. This is accomplished by using a 22 Ohm resistor across the output of the CAB 16d. The level correction [...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 2 6 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved CAT 5 cable is your friend.... Well, you’ve been in the audio business for a while now....you know all about audio connections, balanced cables, multi-pairs, SJO, TRS this and XLR that....you can dress off a wiring harness like nobody’s busines[...]

CA T 5 Cables Pa g e 2 7 Pea ve y Electronics Corp Crossover cables are used to connect switches to other switches or CAB 16s directly to the DPU card. Also, a crossover cable i s what you would use if you were to connect a CAB 16 to another CAB 16, for use as a digital “snake”. A crossover cable is termi - nated the same way as a normal cable,[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 2 8 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Link Connections All CAB Series products feature built-in “Buddy Link” func- tionality for creating backup I/O configurations in mission critical systems. The term “Buddy Link” extends to multiple dimensions within MediaMatrix, but in this [...]

Link Connections Pa g e 2 9 Pea v e y Electronics Corp Fig. 15, CAB 16d Link Connection Example Using the Link feature with the CAB ™ 16d is basically the same as the other units, but there are several issues that must be con- sidered when configuring the digital audio connections. It is not possible to “bus” or “Y” digital signals. An ac[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 3 0 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Setting the Hardware Base Address Once you have a valid physical connection to the network port, you now must configure the port on both ends of the network media to establish communications between the MediaMatrix software and the CAB 16. This is [...]

Configur ation Pa g e 3 1 Pea v e y Electronics Corp Setting the Audio Bundle Now that you have established communications between the MediaMatrix software and the CAB ™ 16 hardware, you will need to prepare the network to pass audio. CobraNet ™ is a powerful protocol that allows you to pass up to 64 channels (32 in by 32 out) of digital audio [...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 3 2 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Testing, Testing..... At this point, it is a good idea to see if everything is working. The example below is a good way to test your system and see how everything relates. Hook up some tunes, an amp and a speaker and see if you hear anything. The a[...]

Tes ting Pa g e 3 3 Pea v e y Electronics Corp The premise here is to get audio to pass from one point to another. Audio input, the tunes, are fed via the CAB ™ 16i. A Hardware Base Address of “0c92” is assigned to the 16i and entered on the front panel of the unit, and its corresponding “Taxi” device inside the software. The audio from t[...]

CAB Audio Bundle set to “285” at the Taxi AND the CobraNet ™ input block CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 3 4 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Testing, Testing.....digital style! When using the CAB 16d, a few additional considerations must be considered. The setup is basically the same, with the addi- tion of t[...]

CAB ™ Audio Bundle set to “286” at the Taxi AND the CobraNet ™ input block AES3 or S/PDIF Digital Audio Input Tes ting Pa g e 3 5 Pea v e y Electronics Corp “The Output Side” Hardware Base Address assigned to “221f”. CAT5 Cable (typ.) “Record Tunes” “The Output Side” “The Input Side” “The Processing”[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 3 6 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Technical Support Warranty Registration Peavey has an extensive Technical Services Group that provides tech sup- port, repair and implementation services. If you require assistance with your new CAB 16, you can get help from several sources. There [...]

Resources Pa g e 3 7 Pea ve y Electronics Corp Additional Resources Tech Notes and General Audio: http://aa.peavey.com/tech_notes.html MediaMatrix product line: http://aa.peavey.com/mediamatrix.html CobraNet ™ products: http://aa.peavey.com/cobranet.html MediaMatrix Mainframe Series: http://aa.peavey.com/mainframe.html MediaMatrix Miniframe Serie[...]

CAB ™ 1 6 Series User Manual Pa g e 3 8 http://aa.pea v e y .com copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Specifications MECHANICAL CAB 16i & CAB 16o PERFORMANCE CAB 16 i CAB 16 o Dimensions (H x W x D) Weight Mounting Connections 19" W x 12-7/8" D x 1-3/4" H (48.26 x 32.70 x 4.44 cm) 9.5 lbs. (4.3 kg) Single EIA Space Rack Mount Rem[...]

Specifications Pa g e 3 9 Pea v e y Electronics Corp GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS CAB ™ 16d PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS A/D, D/A Quantization: 24-bit Audio Transmission Quantization on CobraNet: 20 or 24- bit, CobraNet truncates to 20 bits unless used in reduced channel mode Digital Processing: 24-bit DSP's, 56-bit accumulators Sample Rate: 48 kHz [...]

Architectural Acoustics ® PEA VEY ELECTRONICS CORPORA TION LIMITED W ARRANTY Effective Date: July 1, 1998 What This W arranty Covers Y our Peavey W arranty covers defects in material and workmanship in Peavey products purchased and serviced in the U.S.A. and Canada. What This W arranty Does Not Cover The W arranty does not cover: (1) damage caused[...]

Features and S pecifications subject to change without notice. A product of Peavey Electronics Corporation 71 1 A S treet / Meridian, MS 39301 / USA / (601) 483-5376 / F AX (601) 486-1678 http://aa.peavey .com Copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Printed in USA 4/2000[...]