{"id":4960,"date":"2001-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"what-alt-o-slot-different-tape-o-slots","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-alt-o-slot-different-tape-o-slots\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the ALT I\/O slot &#038; how is it different from the other Tape I\/O slots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A: ALT I\/O stands for Alternate input and output. This slot can output any combination of auxiliary sends 1-8, sub busses 1-8, or the master L-R mix bus. Inputs to this slot will appear on RET 1-8 channels on the Effects fader bank, which are without the standard channel dynamics found on channels 1-48. This slot is the recommended I\/O platform for bussing signals between two (or more) cascaded D8B&#8217;s. Typical uses of this slot would be for digital auxiliary sends and returns, sending a surround mix to a multi-track recorder, bussing pairs of stereo sends to different devices, or receiving auxiliaries or busses from a slave D8B. <br \/>You can use any of the approved Mackie Digital Systems Tape I\/O cards  installed in this slot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"storecat":[],"itemids":[20979],"manufacturers":[33516],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the What is the ALT I\/O slot &amp; how is it different from the other Tape I\/O slots? page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-alt-o-slot-different-tape-o-slots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is the ALT I\/O slot &amp; how is it different from the other Tape I\/O slots? - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A: ALT I\/O stands for Alternate input and output. 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