The MPS-488HP receives eight channels of balanced audio from its XLR female input connectors and routes the audio, along with DC power, to its eight output connectors. Input channels feature toggle switches that route audio to corresponding outputs only, or to adjacent, contiguous outputs. For example, channel input 1 can be routed to channel outputs 1–2 and channel input 3 can be routed to channel outputs 3–4. Another example would be to route channel input 1 to channel outputs 1–4 and channel input 5 to channel outputs 5–8. All eight channel inputs can be routed in parallel to their corresponding channel outputs.