What makes a patch bay shitty? I have never used one. I currently have a few bids on e-bay for some, any brands to stay away from. I figured how hard is it to manufacture these just a bunch of jacks and wire. I could build it, but it is not worth my time when I can buy one for maybe $10-20 more.
BTW, I love my Behringer Headphone amp, esp the main/aux knob, to get that "more of me in the mix".
It's just an "in and out" unbalanced patch bay. No normaling modes or anything. Do a search in "The Rack" for patch bays, I'm sure there's tons of info about it.