OK, I really feel stupid now...

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Hey everyone, nice boards, been lurking for a while here. Now I need a hand.

I got sick of hand-patching my rack, (not much of a rack, mind you) so I got the dreaded Crapinger px1000 ultramaximzing patchbay. (I would have rather bought $30 worth of Newcastle, but.... :rolleyes: )

Here's the thing, I cannot for the life of me figure out how configure this thing! Nowhere in the manual does it tell you which way to flip the cheap-ass modules. Nevermind the piss-poor deign where all the modules fall out at once, but it never tells you how to achieve any of the "5 modes" it claims to offer. Am I missing something completely obvious here? All I want to do is have it completely pass-thru so that all my ins & outs are accessible from the front. I left it as-is from the factory, plugged in my ins at the top, plugged my outputs to the bottom, and my Lexicon is already feeding back into itself. WTF?!?

Any help would save me $140, 'cos that's what I'm gonna spend at the bar trying to forget this crap. Thanks in advance.
 
You want it set on fully normalled, you know this guy is unbalanced right?
 
http://www.performanceaudio.com/media/pdf/0138/004683_m.pdf#search='normalled%20patchbay'
no, you want it normalled, you put it in the top and it comes out the top, you put it in the bottom and it comes out the bottom, Yours may be balanced I may have looked at the wrong ultrapatch
 
Yeah, I see.... After reading the manual for the 34th time, I guess the modes are only affected by the presence of a connection in certain combinations? I really am not this stupid, I swear. I'm just really having a mindblock here. The patchbay concept is sort of new to me. I've recorded in studios over a dozen times, and fudged my way thru some demo stuff plenty, but now I've put together my own project studio, and I wanted to tidy things up a bit. thanks for the help. I guess I gotta mess around with it a bit. Cheers.
 
Well, normally from the factory a patchbay comes set up as fully normalled - which in your case would be figure 5. In this configuration, plugging a cord into the top (or bottom) in the front would break the normalling (this is not true in a half-normalled setup though). If you're looking to get what's displayed in figure one, it seems logical that all you'd have to do is reverse the cards...in other words, make the front jacks the back...just turn them (don't flip them). That would make the front jacks normalled, but that wouldn't matter because you'd have cables inserted into the back, breaking the normal. Your unit is feeding back into itself now because you're plugging the unit into a normalled connection.

That's what I'm reading into this anyway...but I could be way off. ;)

And yes...the manual sucks! Don't want to sound harsh, but why didn't you spring for the PX3000 with the switches. It's only about another $20 or so. I bought those so I wouldn't have to think about things that much. I'm basically lazy. :)

If this helps - great! If I only added to the confusion - sorry.
 
well, to be honest, I ran out of credit on a gift certificate! I used an xmas gift cert to stock up on cables and stuff. I only had $35 left! I'll prob return this one and get a Neutrik. I was just trying to cheap out on an accessory. ;)
 
chizzy said:
well, to be honest, I ran out of credit on a gift certificate! I used an xmas gift cert to stock up on cables and stuff. I only had $35 left! I'll prob return this one and get a Neutrik. I was just trying to cheap out on an accessory. ;)

Been there! :D

Well, good luck with your future purchase.
 
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