Too much stuff / too little inputs

[Mo-Kay]

Hey people...

I was just curious...

some of you must have more instruments/synths/samplers etc. than you have mixing desk channels...

what do you do to route them? do you use submixers? patchbays?

what's the easiest, and/or most elegant way to do it...?


Let me know how you guys roll with it


Mo-Kay

 

[bennychico11]

yep, patchbays. That's what they were created for.

Or just buy a really big console.

 

[SonicAlbert]

I do not have more gear than inputs, I've got inputs and outputs for every piece of gear here. It absolutely drives me nuts to unpatch one piece of gear in order to patch in something else. I do this with aux sends and with busses, as I have 8 aux sends and 8 busses I need to spread around to different gear. But all the signal processing gear is connected to the rear of the patchbays, and the synths/samplers (both hardware and software) are also simultaneously connected.

One challenge to a growing studio is to keep up with the size of it, regarding inputs. I finally levelled off, so my mixer merry-go-round has finally kind of stabilized.

I have two Speck XtraMix's ganged together into one 80 channel mixer (set up as 40 stereo channels), plus a Tascam DM-24 for an additional 32 inputs which can be either analog or digital. So that's 112 channel inputs (not counting aux returns and other inputs of course). Believe it or not, I've just about got those 112 inputs maxed out!