Have Any Of You Used Somethin Like This?

[Bobalou]

http://www.midi-classics.com/h/h18857.htm

Looking to bring all my rear mic pre inputs to the front, as I'm tired of all those 3 foot cables tied to the front of my rack.

any others.

thanks

 

[TexRoadkill]

That should do the trick.

 

[cominginsecond]

I've heard it's not a good idea to route phantom power through a patch bay though. Maybe that was just a TRS patch bay, though.

 

[Bobalou]

I've heard it's not a good idea to route phantom power through a patch bay though. Maybe that was just a TRS patch bay, though.

hmm!..I did not know that? interesting, I'll look into it.
thanks

 

[ebeam]

If you're not afraid of a little soldering, you can build your own for about half that price.

One of these:
http://www.markertek.com/MTStore/product.CFM?BaseItem=SFXLP-1

and some of these:
http://www.markertek.com/MTStore/product.CFM?BaseItem=NC3FP

This is what I did so now I have 8 xlr inputs on the front of my rack. The chassis mount connectors are soldered directly to canare star quad and then to xlr connectors which plug into my preamps.

BTW, running phantom power through a patchbay IS only a problem for TRS since the pins make connection at different times. With XLR its not a problem......basically, you're just bringing the input for the preamp out front.

 

[cominginsecond]

Makes sense.

 

[Son of Mixerman]

I've heard it's not a good idea to route phantom power through a patch bay though. Maybe that was just a TRS patch bay, though.

It depends on how the bay is set up. If you were using the patchbay to put the inputs of your console in a better place and your carefull about your patching its just like connecting 2 xlr cables together. But if somehow your not careful and patch something unbalanced with the phantom power on you could pop the opamp on the phantom power in the console.

It all depends

SoMm