02/25/2026
This is a rebuild (v3!) of one of our production systems we use mainly for corporate events, and the occasion small sport shows.
The biggest new feature is the Ross Ultrix. It offers excellent audio routing, allowing any channel of any video source to be mapped onto any channel of any outgoing video source. There's also 64 more channels of IO via MADI/Dante so no more external embed/de-embed gear. The Carbonite switcher offers 6ME layers (2full/4mini) for lots of creativity.
One of the coolest things is that names and tally are shared between the router and the switcher. Seeing tally boxes in the switcher MV is pretty standard, but we also get it in the 2 extra MV in the router. Router source names follow into the switcher, so when you route Cam1 or Playback 2 into a switcher input the name on the switcher surfaces and MV automatically update saving a lot of setup programming.
We also included 2 MacMini M1 running Mitti for playbacks, 2 Intel NUCs for main/bu Slides and Notes for presentations. Another NUC is running vMix solely for character generation with SDI key/fill. 2 HyperDeck minis give additional record/playback functions. All of these are connected to the Ultrix, just load media and ready to go.
We've also included some fiber IO, and 4 mini boxes that handle SDI and Dante. They connect directly to the Ultrix and make distant camera/interview locations a breeze. We have a full announce booth kit that can work on these same fiber ports for sports as well. Local connections include 24 SDI in, 24 SDI out, and plenty of ethernet ports on 4 different vLAN networks.
A little bit of shop time and stress test before we put this into our rental rotation, can't wait :-)
