Midi controlled XLR switcher?

[james...]

I've been hunting for something like this for a while and so far I've got nada. Let me explain my situation.

For my gigs I've got two XLR's going to the board. One is coming directly out of the Axe-fx. The other is coming from a mic that's on my 4x12 speaker. Basically, I want to use the axe-fx xlr (with cab sims) for my cleans and i want to use the actual mic xlr for dirty.

The only problem is I have no way to switch between xlr's going to the board. In a perfect world I would just turn off the 4x12 when I was playing clean but that would sound weird on stage.

So really what I need is a device that can switch between 2 xlr sources. And it needs to be midi controllable.

Any ideas?

 

[steveb]

are you using the AxeFX FX Loop? Maybe you could put the mic into a level transformer/matcher into the FX return and route that in the AxeFX?

 

[Firstpenguin]

This would be overkill but the switchblade with balanced inputs would work. It uses TRS balanced inputs which are as good as XLR connections. You just need to get XLR to TRS cables.