Nate74
HR4FREBR
I've had some good luck finding some general information on this but nothing specific to my own state of confussion...
As part of getting some new windows installed in my house, I had to essentially take my studio apart to move it away from where the new window was being installed in in my control room. As a result, I'm revisiting my patchbay setup a bit.
I have 3 Neutrik NYS-SPP-L patchbays in my studio, which I've discovered aren't capable of NORMAL, only Half-NORMAL. Anyway, currently I use the top row of one to bring the Line Ins from my Topaz8 up front. I use the second bay pretty much as straight through connections for my 6 Aux Sends, my 4 FX Returns, each of the 8 inserts on the 8 busses, and the ins and outs of 8 different channels of compression.
So as I start to understand normal and half normal I have a few questions.
Since I always have my LXP1 Reverb on Aux3 Send and FX1 Return, should I setup a Half-NORMAL connection for that instead of using two cables? If I understand this all correctly, that would mean I would always have that effect on that AUX when no cables are patched in. Is that how others do it?
Secondly, is it common to do something similar with compressors? I think I could see some logic in always have my DBX160XT on Bus1, etc.
Thanks all!
As part of getting some new windows installed in my house, I had to essentially take my studio apart to move it away from where the new window was being installed in in my control room. As a result, I'm revisiting my patchbay setup a bit.
I have 3 Neutrik NYS-SPP-L patchbays in my studio, which I've discovered aren't capable of NORMAL, only Half-NORMAL. Anyway, currently I use the top row of one to bring the Line Ins from my Topaz8 up front. I use the second bay pretty much as straight through connections for my 6 Aux Sends, my 4 FX Returns, each of the 8 inserts on the 8 busses, and the ins and outs of 8 different channels of compression.
So as I start to understand normal and half normal I have a few questions.
Since I always have my LXP1 Reverb on Aux3 Send and FX1 Return, should I setup a Half-NORMAL connection for that instead of using two cables? If I understand this all correctly, that would mean I would always have that effect on that AUX when no cables are patched in. Is that how others do it?
Secondly, is it common to do something similar with compressors? I think I could see some logic in always have my DBX160XT on Bus1, etc.
Thanks all!