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title: "Setting up a VX Studio (without an Axia Console)"
slug: "setting-up-a-vx-studio-without-an-axia-console"
updated: 2024-12-19T07:33:37Z
published: 2024-12-19T07:33:37Z
canonical: "docs.telosalliance.com/setting-up-a-vx-studio-without-an-axia-console"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.telosalliance.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Setting up a VX Studio (without an Axia Console)

## Scope

This article applies to all Telos VX Series systems. It describes how to configure a VX Studio for use with an xNode.

## Create a new VX Studio

1. Log in to your VX's web configuration interface and navigate to the **Configuration -> Studios** page.
2. Click **Add New:**

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3. Name the Studio, specify how many hybrids (channels) the studio needs, and click **Apply:**

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Once you click **Apply**, the **Selectable Channels** configuration section will appear.

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The **Enable** checkbox and three fields to the left configure the hybrid's output. The **Advanced Receive** portion configures the hybrid's input.

## Set up the Hybrid Outputs

1. Check the **Enable** check boxes.
2. **Name** the Hybrid outputs appropriately
3. Enter new Livewire **Channel** numbers
4. Set the **Channel** mode to **Live Stereo**
5. Click **Apply**.

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## Configure xNode I/O

1. Open a new tab in your browser and log in to the xNode's web interface.
2. Navigate to the **Destinations** page
3. **Name** the outputs appropriately
4. Enter the channel numbers we configured in the previous section above into the appropriate **Channel** fields
5. Set **Type** to [**From Source**](/v1/docs/to-source-vs-from-source)
6. Set **Gain** to unity (**0.0**).
7. Click **Apply**.

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> [!NOTE]
> In this example, the xNode is set up for **8x8 Mono Mode** as configured in the xNode's **Simple Setup** page. Here, output 1 will appear on the left connector of the StudioHub adapter while output 2 appears on the right connector of the StudioHub adapter connected to the xNode's Line Output 1 RJ-45 jack.

Now that the xNode's outputs are set up, let's configure the inputs.

1. Navigate to the xNode's **Sources** page.
2. **Name** the inputs appropriately
3. Enter new Livewire **Channel** numbers (see note below)
4. Set **Stream Mode** to **Live Stereo**.
5. Click **Apply**

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> [!NOTE]
> **Notice** that we've designated one of the inputs as **POH** for "Program on Hold," this is required and is discussed in the next step.

## Set up the Hybrid Inputs

1. Go back to the VX Studio configuration
2. Check the checkboxes under **Advanced Receive**
3. Enter the channel numbers we configured in the xNode sources in the adjacent fields.
4. Set the mode to [**From Source**](/v1/docs/to-source-vs-from-source)

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5. Enter the third channel number we configured above into the **Program On Hold - Channel** field
6. Set **Type** to [**From Source**](/v1/docs/to-source-vs-from-source)
7. Click **Apply**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/57e3cd80-d493-453c-9672-ad1b043dadc3/Images/Documentation/ab446951-3479-41ea-8800-82593ec32be6-poh.png)

> [!NOTE]
> The **Program on Hold** audio is generally the program output from the console. This is the audio all callers placed on hold in this studio will hear, so it should be pre-delay.

> [!CAUTION]
> **Program on Hold** audio is required in VX or else the system providing SIP will drop calls after being placed on hold with silence for 30 seconds.