With a growing ragtag collection of (mostly ‘pre-loved’) studio outboard, and the mess of cables that results, I realised that I could no longer put off getting a patchbay. There are some things we just need to work out for ourselves. Perhaps people also expect too much in this age of insta-info, YouTube tutorials-for-everything and tiny-learn-curve software that can take much of the effort out of musical creativity (that’s a whole can of worms for another post). This, I think, is why it’s hard to find a definitive “how to” for patchbay design – there’s no definitive setup – everyone’s studio, and therefore use for a patchbay, is personal and will need wiring differently. It seemed that I was not alone in my confusion – type ‘patchbay’ into any of the music tech forums and you’ll see hundreds of posts by desperate musicians, basically asking the same questions, but for connecting different bits of kit. I say put off because I’d previously somehow come to the conclusion that I needed one because I thought I knew what they did, but whenever I did a little research about them I came away confused between the normals, half-normals, parallels, opens, bantams and jacks (well, I knew what a jack was at least).
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