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What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
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The Patchbay
- 1. The Patchbay stuart.jones3@southwales.ac.uk www.stuartjones.org
- 2. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 3. The Patchbay is the central connection point for ALL audio equipment in the studio. Patchbays offer the convenience to quickly change the path of select signals.
- 4. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 6. Insert Points Insert Points where you would connect the TRS end of your cable
- 7. Insert Cable Mono Y cable
- 8. Rear Panel Connections Y end connected to the inputs and outputs of your device
- 9. Front Panel Connections Standard TRS 1/4” jacks
- 10. Front Panel Connections Bantam
- 11. Rear Panel Connections Showing Dsub (DB25) connections
- 12. Audient Rear Panel Connections On the other end of the Dsub you would find....
- 13. Rear Panel Connections XLR and Jack (Rear panel to a compressor)
- 14. Rear Panel Connections RCA/Phono (Rear panel to a CD player)
- 15. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 16. TOS and RIB: • TOS = Top, Output, Send. • RIB = Return In Bottom.
- 17. Means no signal will flow through the patchbay without inserting a patch cord.
- 18. A normalled section automatically routes whatever is plugged into the top output of the patchbay to the input directly beneath.
- 19. This is essentially the same as normalled but means you can insert a patch cord into the output without breaking the signal flow to the input.
- 20. A patchbay set up in parallel allows you to split the signal. Whatever goes into the back input will be routed out of the front top and bottom and rear bottom.
- 21. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 22. Insert Points Must be half or full normalled or channels will not work.
- 23. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 24. Compressors and Gates Must be open or units will feed back into themselves
- 25. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 26. FX Units and Auxes Must be half or full normalled or patchcords will be needed.
- 27. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 28. Synths and Others Must be half or full normalled or patchcords will be needed.
- 29. Agenda What is a Patchbay? Connections Configuration Inserts points Compressors and Gates FX Units and Auxes Synths and others Audient patchbay
- 30. 2 3 1 1 Insert Points
- 31. Recording in the Control Room
- 33. Insert Points Feeds to external processing devices are normalled from the console aux outputs to rear mounted XLRs
- 34. Insert Points Two sets of 4 way parallels are provided. These are useful for paralleling a number of inputs.
- 35. The Patchbay stuart.jones3@southwales.ac.uk www.stuartjones.org
Editor's Notes
- Cheap Not always the best connection
- Expensive Robust
- Dsubs typically come in banks of 8
- Otherwise we would have to patch in to create a signal path
- Feeds to external processing devices are normalled from the console aux outputs to rear mounted XLRs
- Two sets of 4 way parallels are provided. These are useful for paralleling a number of inputs.