Portable mixing and monitoring system for musicians

• US 20040208328A1
• Filed: 04/15/2003
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Max Wayne Strother
• Original Assignee: Max Wayne Strother
• Inventors: Strother, Max Wayne
• Application Number:
  US10/413,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20040208328A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/119
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/30 Control circuits for electronic adaptation of the sound field

Abstract

An audio monitoring and mixing system comprising a portable monitoring circuit, a breakout box, and a distribution circuit. The portable monitoring circuit includes a mixer for mixing audio signals to provide a mixed audio signal to an individual musician and a feedthrough for patching out an instrument effects signal. The breakout box includes a feedthrough circuit for distributing the first plurality of audio signals to the portable monitoring circuit and a second feedthrough for patching through the instrument effects signal from the portable monitoring circuit and providing the signal to an instrument effects processor. The distribution circuit receives audio signals and providing selected ones of the audio signals to the portable monitoring system. The system also includes a single, multi-signal cable connecting the monitoring circuit to the breakout box and a single, multi-signal cable connecting the breakout box to the distribution circuit.

Claims

1. An audio monitoring system comprising:

a portable monitoring circuit comprising a mixer for mixing a first plurality of audio signals to provide a mixed audio signal, and a first feedthough for patching out an instrument effects signal; and

a breakout box comprising a feedthrough circuit for distributing the first plurality of audio signals to the portable monitoring circuit and a second feedthrough for patching the instrument effects signal from the portable monitoring circuit and providing the signal to an instrument effects processor.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a first common cable comprising a plurality of wires for coupling the first plurality of audio signals between the breakout box and the portable monitoring circuit.

5. The system of claim 4, the first common cable further comprising a plurality of wires for coupling an instrument effects signal between the portable monitoring circuit and the breakout box.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a second common cable comprising a plurality of wires for coupling the first plurality of audio signals from the distribution circuit to the breakout box.

7. The system of claim 1, the portable monitoring circuit further comprising respective volume control circuits, coupled to each of the first plurality of audio signals, for controlling the volume levels of each of the first plurality of audio signals.

8. The system of claim 1, the first plurality of audio signals comprising at least two monitor signals, a microphone signal, an instrument signal, and a power signal.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a conditioning circuit for receiving at least one of the first plurality of audio signals and providing a corresponding balanced audio output signal.

9. A portable audio monitoring and mixing system comprising:

a portable monitoring circuit, adapted to be worn by a musician, for receiving and mixing a plurality of audio signals and patching out an instrument effects signal;

a breakout box for distributing the plurality of mixed audio signals and patching through an instrument effects signal; and

a distribution circuit for receiving a second plurality of audio signals and providing selected ones of the second plurality of audio signals to the portable monitoring system.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

a first common cable comprising a plurality of wires for coupling the first plurality of audio signals and the instrument effects signal between the portable monitoring circuit and the breakout box; and

a second common cable comprising a plurality of wires for coupling the first plurality of audio signals between the distribution circuit and the breakout box.