Audio networking is much more than just a way to connect a digital snake. With an AVB network, you can connect digital audio devices over long distances using CAT5e or CAT6 Ethernet cable and route your audio anywhere on the network with extremely low latency. AVB offers several unique benefits that make it a better choice for audio than other networking protocols. For example, AVB provides a high-precision clock that significantly reduces harmonic distortion and phasing, ensuring your audio stays clear and clean. AVB ensures you always have enough bandwidth to carry your low latency audio—even when your intern starts streaming a movie. These important benefits are an inherent part of AVB; you don’t need to do anything special to your devices or AVB switch. And you can only get them with AVB.

Even if you baby your equipment, your stage boxes are likely to take a beating, especially on extended tours. But no matter how demanding the conditions, stage box failure is not an option. So we built the NSB 16.8 into a rugged steel chassis designed to survive the rigors of the road, and we equipped it with sturdy handles. Its classic stage box form factor allows the NSB 16.8 to sit well on the stage, or it can be rack mounted with an optional rack-ear kit. The NSB 16.8 also is compatible with stage pockets from Ace Backstage.

“StudioLive” doesn’t just mean “digital mixers.” StudioLive Series III is all about top-to-bottom, wall-to-wall mix solutions with a lineup now featuring digital consoles, rack mixers, personal monitoring units and stage boxes. And because Series III has AVB at its core, you get to expand your audio network over time to fit your needs.

With Series III, you can track in your home studio on Friday and then mix front of house at a dive bar on Saturday night. You’ll still have what you need to run monitors on Sunday morning.

• Locking, remote controllable combo mic/line inputs
  
• 16 remote-controllable XMAX preamps
  
• Gain compensation for shared inputs
  
• 8 locking XLR line outputs
  

• Mute All button
  
• +48V indicators
  
• Easy setup and control from StudioLive® Series III consoles and UC Surface
  

• 32x8 AVB (16 direct input channels + 16 gain-compensated input channels)
  
• 2 AVB ports with locking XLR Ethernet jacks
  

• Easy setup and control from PreSonus® UC Surface touch control software for Mac®, Windows®, iPad®, and Android™, available free from Apple App Store and Google Play
  

• Locking IEC power jack
  

• Rugged stage box enclosure
  
• Optional rack ears
  
• Compatible with stage pockets from Ace Backstage
  

• Input Type XLR Female, balanced
  
• Frequency Response to Main Output (at unity gain) 20-20 kHz, ±0.5 dBu
  
• Input Impedance 1 kΩ
  
• THD to Main Output <0.005%, +4 dBu, 20-20 kHz, unity gain, unwtd
  
• S/N Ratio to Main Output (Ref = +4 dB, 20 kHz BW, unity gain, A-wtd) 94 dB
  
• Common Mode Rejection Ratio (1 kHz at unity gain) 65 dB
  
• Gain Control Range (±1 dB) 0 dB to +60 dB
  
• Maximum Input Level (unity gain) +12 dBu
  
• Phantom Power (±2 VDC) 48 VDC, switchable per channel