Hear Technologies Switch Back M8RX

With intuitive design and robust capabilities, the Hear Technologies Switch Back M8RX is actually two products in one. This gives the musician a choice to play live, record, or monitor their mix all in one single tool.

The M8RX is a personal interface to be used for live sound or recording, and also a multi-channel headphone monitoring system. While compact in size, the M8RX gives individuals options to use it in multiple ways, such as a mini recording studio setup or a simple communication system.

The research and design of the M8RX is what sets it apart. Hear Technologies' engineers created the sleek look and feel making it perfect for hanging from a belt, mounting on a mic stand, or sitting on a table. The M8RX features a total of eight channels of audio mixing – two studio-quality microphone preamps, two channel line-inputs, and four Dante network audio inputs/outputs. The M8RX’s two mic preamps have a distortion spec below 0.001% along with zero-latency analog mixing and monitoring of the four analog inputs. With Ethernet capability becoming standard in most pro audio gear today, the M8RX includes a total of four channels of Dante network audio inputs/outputs.

Along with the same high quality headphone amplifier as in the Hear Back PRO and OCTO systems, the M8RX has 5 watts of headphone power and can be connected to a computer via the Ethernet port. The unit uses PoE power over the same Cat5e cable as the Ethernet.

Features:

• Local control of up to 8 channels of audio (4 local analog inputs and 4 Dante digital inputs)
• All 4 local analog input channels are made available on the Dante network as sources
• Two ultra-low-noise studio-quality discrete microphone preamplifiers
• Remotely/Locally adjustable microphone gain selectable in 6 dB increments between 30 and 60 dB of gain
• Ultra-low distortion of 0.001% THD+N (even with 60 dB of gain on the microphone preamp!)
• Zero latency headphone monitoring of the local analog inputs
• Remotely selectable LED color on top for easy color-coding and identification
• Optional Hear Technologies software for discovering M8RX interfaces on the network, controlling gain, phantom power, and LED color
• Standard CAT5e, CAT6 cabling delivers power and Dante digital audio to each M8RX interface
• Small enough to be belt clipped or mount on a stand or clip with ¼”-20 thread standard camera-tripod mount
• Use stand-alone as a small microphone preamp, analog mixer, and headphone amplifier without a Dante network connection (great as a "more me" system)