Noisy Patchbay

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Hey guys I bought a patchbay and I am new to them I decided to test out the routing on it.

It put it in the "open" configuration and hooked up a guitar to it (inserted into top A -rear) and then lined the patchbay out to a crappy combo amp (top A-front). The patched signal had tons of noise and it was removed as soon as I went direct into the combo amp.

any ideas as to why?

thanks.
 
i'm new to patchbays myself, but from what i understand, you really only want to route line level cables through a patchbay... no mics, no guitars, etc.
 
The noise...is it like a buzzing humm sound? What brand/model patch bay is it and is it a TRS or a TS type? Sounds like an impedance mismatch of some sort.b
 
Yeah it basically just sounds like a whole lot of static...sort of like a ground loop I suppose.

Not sure if its TRS or TS. Its a Behringer 2000 series.

I was wondering if it was due to a lack of a DI box or something like that. I'm not planning on ru nning guitar cables through it (going to run cables from the outs of a live mixer) but I was just using the guitar to test it. Now I'm curious if I'll always have that noise.
 
MCreel said:
Its a Behringer 2000 series.

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Congrats you just solved your problem!



Seriously, a Behringer patchbay will not do any good. I recently built a studio for a guy and handwired 3 ADC TT patch bays into it (288 channels all balanced, LOT's of soldering lol) and a friend of our's walked in to the studio and said "yer gonna get ton's of noise with all them patchbays, why did you do that?" After firing up the rig and recording 24 tracks simultaniously at 24bit 96khz with every track going through the patchbays between 1-4 times EACH! He was shocked that the sound was pristine. He then told me that his "behringer and DBX patchbays" always added a little noise to his recordings, to which I replied "you get what you pay for"

ADC TT patch bays are about $400 each starting and you need special long throw cables about $25 for each 1'.

I have 4 ADC patchbays in my personal studio and have pristinely clean recordings every time.
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Oh yeah, I also own a Furman (about $200) and RE'AN (about $150-200) patchbays. Both of which will make a little noise if they are not cleaned every time I use them and I have to use very expensive well sheilded cables. Needless to say I only use them for testing projects, or live use.
 
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