Setting up my first patch bay...help!

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ENOCHKANE

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Hey ya'll,

i'm setting up a patch bay to use with my 828 and DP. i'm trying to bypass latency issue, so i'll go into the makie 1402. this is my first time setting up a patch bay and doing external mixing, so any ideas would help. i have a bit of outboard gear (rack and guitar processors, reverb, eq's, etc) and i'd like to incorporate it in the recording/mixing process without going behing the 828 to change set-ups every 10 minutes.

also, any patch cable recommendations? are the Hosa ones OK? Or should i go a bit above them with the AP Audio ones?

and my patch bay is a Behringer ultra patch pro, so i can do normalled, halfnormalled and parallel.

thanks so much!
 
yeah...I would use a normalled run (i think this is the auto-patch one?) between the outputs of your 828 and the line inputs of the mixer. that way, if you want to use the mixer preamp to record something, you move the cable from the line in to the insert, and you put your insert cable into the rack. I would also put a normalled run from your mixer's sub outs or master outs to your monitors. you also might want to link some outboard preamps to the channel ins on the 828. all of this can be bypassed with patch cables. you also might want to run a snake from the mixer to the patchbay which would include group outs, group inserts, aux sends and returns, that sort of stuff.
 
Hey Falken,

Thanks for the tips. I think that i get what you're talking about. this is the first time i'll be using this set-up. If i use a snake to take the individual outs and ALT 3-4 from the Mackie, do they plug into the bay or the 828? and is it best to take the mainouts from the Mackie with an XLR to 1/4 or 1/4 to 1/4, as the Mackie has both?

Thanks again, really appreciate it.

ENOCH
 
connect all of the motu ins and outs to the back of the patchbay and label them on the front. I wouldn't hard-wire anything to the motu, but you might want to half-normal something to it. that is personal choice. as for which mackie outputs to use, it may or may not make a difference. I am not familiar with the board. but, for example, there is a chance that the XLR outputs use a transformer and the TRS ones don't. in which case it is a matter of personal preference as to which one sounds better. but there probably isn't a difference.
 
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