Hello: I have a Yamaha AW16G, which is a sixteen-track digital recorder. It has eight audio input jacks, and I have more than eight pieces of gear that I want to connect to it. I have a Behringer PX3000 24-channel patch bay. So far, so good. When I go to read articles about how to connect them, it seems that every one of them dives right into using aux gear like effects and returns, etc. I don't have those units. All I want to do is to be able to hook up the analog outs of the gear (using TS 1/4" cables) to the patch bay so that I don't have to keep plugging/unplugging cables into the 16-track recorder. The goal is to have the synths and drum boxes plugged into the patch bay once and for all, and then route them to the recorder via short cables and switch settings.
I have read over and over again about the modes: normal,half-normal, and thru. Still, it seems that one should be able to just connect eight short jacks from the patch bay to the recorder, leave them there, and then move mode switches and short cables (in front of the patch bay) to achieve flexibility in routing the signals from the various instruments. Is this really that difficult? If someone could detail just one such re-routing, that would be a great solution.
I have read over and over again about the modes: normal,half-normal, and thru. Still, it seems that one should be able to just connect eight short jacks from the patch bay to the recorder, leave them there, and then move mode switches and short cables (in front of the patch bay) to achieve flexibility in routing the signals from the various instruments. Is this really that difficult? If someone could detail just one such re-routing, that would be a great solution.