blind_sublime
New member
Hi,
It seems that I've acquired enough gear over the last 2 years for my home studio, that my cabling is turning into an all-out 'cacoon' behind my daw... I've read up about patchbays and such, but due to my ignorance seem to be missing some piece of information. What I want to be able to do is quickly be able to route various mics through various preamps in a reasonable manner. I'm not sure how to do this without some sort of combo XLR-TRS type patchbay? My setup is as such:
5 mics (all requiring phantom power) with XLR out connections
4 different preamps with XLR ins, and various assortments of XLR & TRS outs
All going into an RME Fireface (TRS Ins).
What kind of patchbay can I use to set this up? At some point, I'd like to get some 'insert' based equipment as well (ala rack compressors), but for now, this is the bare bones setup. This all came to a head last night as our bands singer wanted to "go down the line" with several mics and preamps , and I was having an anuresym behind the desk hooking and re-hooking things around...
Thanks for any help!
-b.sublime
It seems that I've acquired enough gear over the last 2 years for my home studio, that my cabling is turning into an all-out 'cacoon' behind my daw... I've read up about patchbays and such, but due to my ignorance seem to be missing some piece of information. What I want to be able to do is quickly be able to route various mics through various preamps in a reasonable manner. I'm not sure how to do this without some sort of combo XLR-TRS type patchbay? My setup is as such:
5 mics (all requiring phantom power) with XLR out connections
4 different preamps with XLR ins, and various assortments of XLR & TRS outs
All going into an RME Fireface (TRS Ins).
What kind of patchbay can I use to set this up? At some point, I'd like to get some 'insert' based equipment as well (ala rack compressors), but for now, this is the bare bones setup. This all came to a head last night as our bands singer wanted to "go down the line" with several mics and preamps , and I was having an anuresym behind the desk hooking and re-hooking things around...
Thanks for any help!
-b.sublime