Avoid the Rain

[frederic]

Everyone knows the cliche "when it rains it pours" but every so often one lucks out and when it rains, your umbrella works.

Won a gentner 52-pt patch bay on skank-bay for a mere $19.99, and the seller said he has more. I asked if he had 16, he said yes, viola. Patch bay needs are complete.

Gentner isn't quite an ADC, but its a far cry from hosa, dbx, behringer, and the other plastic-to-wear-out-with-a-lot-of-patching type patch bays.

Woohoo!

Sorry, just rubbing in my good fortune.

 

[Track Rat]

Very cool! I found all my patchbays (Switchcraft series 2600 solid brass long frame balanced) at an electronics consignment shop (new I may add) for $25 a piece. I have 12 of them all told.

 

[frederic]

Very cool! I found all my patchbays (Switchcraft series 2600 solid brass long frame balanced) at an electronics consignment shop (new I may add) for $25 a piece. I have 12 of them all told.

Cool, there are deals to be had... just a matter of being in the right place at the right time

 

[MikeA]

Track Rat

Where would one find an "Electronics Consignment" shop? I've heard of clothing consignments and musical instrument consignments but never an electronics one. I'd like to find one of those around this neck of the woods.

 

[Track Rat]

There are a couple here. St. Louis Electronics Exchange is where I picked up mine. They're like the elephants graveyard of electronics.

 

[DDev]

I've got a couple of the longframe Switchcraft patchbays that were free, but they are TS only.

Otherwise, I've got my (so far) trusty plastic Nady balanced patchbays. Another one of those "if it works, for now it must be OK".

Darryl.....

 

[frederic]

"Cheap/Free overcomes many faults".

And TS qtr inch patch bays are great for synth modules and outboards, since the vast majority of them do not have balanced inputs and outputs. A small few do however, and they could have their own bay, why not.

I've broken one hosa patch bay, and one neutrik bay. They don't really hold up to constant patching. Occasional patching, yes, they are absolutely fine. But if you're changing patches several times a day on the same jacks, the plastic collars around the holes you put the plugs into tend to crack after a while, then fall into the jack if the bay is horizontal.