Once again without diving in too deep, normalising and half normalising are techniques used to allow connections (or routing) to be made in your patchbay whilst there are no patch cables inserted. Normalised and half normalised are terms that you might hear when engineers get very geeky and talking about how they have configured their patchbays. Changing this configuration by messing around the back of our rack in at best a pain in the ^%$£! so we use a patch panel or patchbay, or old people like Mike call them jackfields, to make changing our routing nice and simple and nice and tidy. One minute we could be tracking using a compressor as an insert on an input channel and in the next we could be using the same compressor on our master bus. So why would we add more connections and solder joints when we can "hard patch" it all together? Well, it turns out that we like to use our gear in a number of different ways. What Does A Patchbay Do?Īt it's most basic, a patchbay brings the connections from the rear panel of your gear (be that outboard racks or your mixing console) onto a panel where using what we now call patch cables or cords we can link all our units together without the need to fumble around the back of the racks to connect the gear, keeping it all nice and tidy. After talking with the guys at Audient and after trying the desk in a real world recording environment I decided to pony up the extra cash and opt for the patchbay section and I have to admit it is one of the best gear decisions I have ever made.
When I was planning the purchase of my Audient 8024HE console, one of the big questions was whether to get the optional attached patchbay or not.
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Everyone has their go-to pieces of gear for a particular instrument and tricks for getting greatest snare drum sound you have ever heard, but as far as I can tell there are no rules what so ever as to how to arrange and wire-up a patchbay. There a very few hard and fast rules in the audio world, besides maybe "More CowBell" and never use channel one of the mixer in a rehearsal studio.
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