How To Set Up A Patchbay In A Studio | Layout, Normalling, & Setup

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This video will take you through the setup of a patchbay, including planning the layout and connecting everything together. You'll see the difference between normal, half normal, and thru on a patchbay and how to choose between them.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - How Does A Patchbay Work?
0:48 - How To Set Up A Patchbay
5:01 - Choosing A Patchbay For Your Studio
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Комментарии : 94

@Louis_Beri Год назад

I really think this is the best channel for sound engineering on RU-vid. You rock

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Wow! Thanks, Louis. I’m glad you are enjoying the videos.

@thomasashley369 Год назад

Thanks for this info. There’s lots of clips on patch bays and yours is in the top few good ones. It’s good at explaining the different use cases for the various modes.

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Glad you liked it! Thanks!

@MynorJGon Год назад

Just reminding you that you're doing great work as always, Kyle. Thanks!

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Thank you!

@philf4086 2 месяца назад

Great information, I need to watch a few more times to get the basics down. Thanks!!

@korkenknopfus Год назад

That was a very clear explanation!

@jackstanton1091 7 месяцев назад

Excellent video. Thanks

@daleplatino 5 месяцев назад

Super explanation. Thanks.

@64nightfly 8 месяцев назад

Very helpful! Thank you.

@RobKingRC Год назад

I own 2 Samson’s, Great product!

@headsails 9 месяцев назад

This is the vid I'm using to configure a Bittree TT. However, the TT bay is all Half Normal, so I'm putting through connections on a TRS bay. Tks.

@ebormajaw8064 Год назад

My best teacher👍, keep using your talent bro..

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Thanks, ebor! Glad you’re enjoying the videos!

@jobaecker9752 Год назад

Just when I thought I knew everything....along comes Audio University....

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Thanks, Jo! Glad you enjoyed this one!

@cbrooks0905 7 месяцев назад

I don’t know if I’m just lacking electrolytes or my learning style requires more hands on training, but everything you said might as well be Chinese to me. I don’t understand why patchbays have to be so complicated for such simple devices.

@DrBuffaloBalls 2 месяца назад

It really is the kind of device that clicks properly once you actually have one and can practice hands on.

@SeabornProductions Месяц назад

My brother in smooth brained Christ… I feel the same way

@cbrooks0905 Месяц назад

@@SeabornProductions it was definitely a hands on issue. Once I got the patch bay and made a diagram I got it all hooked up no problem. I didn’t expect to have to make 70 cables for it but hey, it was fun.

@SeabornProductions Месяц назад

@@cbrooks0905 hell yeah now your studio looks like a spilled bowl of spaghetti

@InternalMind 8 дней назад

Not just you mate, every patch at tutorial video is about a story of their life and sped up patchbay setups and more long stories about how they plugged in all their gear without showing us

@mgkesubeats133 Год назад

Thanks for another great video! For the FRONT panel of the patch bay are you using TRS or TS patch cables for each connection? Thanks

@AudioUniversity Год назад

TRS patch cables. Thank you for watching!

@BillBene67 11 месяцев назад

Such a helpful video. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to see a video of you connecting an interface like an Apollo to a patchbay along with outboard gear. Keep up the great work

@AudioUniversity 11 месяцев назад

Thanks! This video might be helpful: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UEya4v50XF4.html

@BillBene67 11 месяцев назад

Thank you!!@@AudioUniversity

@LandonWells Год назад

This literally made more sense than my whole semester at school for Audio Engineering. GREAT VIDEO

@MarioGodoyMusic Год назад

What’s the best way to plug in external instruments like synths? Would you still use a TRS cable? Or would standard TS cables work?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

A TS instrument cable will work.

@Ob1fooo Год назад

Question! How do you get input one from the 18i20 to the patchbay? Would u have to connect the front Jack of the 18i20 to the back of the patchbay?

@studio440hzz4 Год назад

What kind of cables to use for patchbay ? Because this has trs ports and most studios have xlr snake

@Charieldeleon 11 месяцев назад

My current situation unplugging replugging need one of these but I don’t understand how to setup the stereo stuff

@tukoramirez8478 Год назад

Hi do these patchbays have separate grounds, or is the ground shared for all connections via chasi?

@arvidlofvenhamn9205 Год назад

Wait a minute! TRS supports phantom power?! This changes everything 🤯 By the way I love your videos!

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Yes. Just be careful not to connect or disconnect while phantom power is on. Thanks!

@BennSutcliffe 23 дня назад

@@AudioUniversityso you take a xlr-trs into the patchbay, then trs-trs from the patch bay into the preamp or interface?

@upstairstudio371 6 месяцев назад

Great video! This helped a ton with my new interface. Question for you though; I see you have your guitar amps in this chain which inspired me to do the same. however i get a TON of noise and even pickup a random radio channel if I am not playing. Any advice on what I can do to remove this? I have the samson S patch > guitar pedals > boss katana. thanks in advance!

@AudioUniversity 6 месяцев назад

Check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SjzmD7rDk-M.htmlsi=JMZTMK8RRDrN6A9D

@upstairstudio371 6 месяцев назад

Bless you! @@AudioUniversity

@LeyendaTheProducer Год назад

Thanks a lot for the video men! I have a question does patchbay makes you loose some DB? Because I have same as yours and I’m loosing 2db.

@nanocyde_artist Год назад

You might be having a balanced/unbalanced cabling issue

@Davidjzmusic Год назад

Amazing video!! One question.. I have an 8 channel mixer with only 2 stereo imput, and and want to connect all my keyboards at the same time to record, patchbay is a solution for that?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Thanks, David! A patchbay would allow you to use patch cables from the keyboard (jacks on the patchbay) to the stereo mixer input (jacks on the patchbay) instead of reaching behind the mixer/keyboards directly. You can also use two mono channels on the mixer for each stereo keyboard.

@mauiztic Год назад

I have a question, is it safe to put phantom power directly through the patchbay with all my other gear connected as well? In this case I have the Samson but I've read in forums that for connecting microphones directly into the patchbay you should really get a dedicated XLR patchbay. Thanks a lot for this brilliant information.

@AudioUniversity Год назад

As long as phantom power is NOT engaged while connecting and disconnecting the mic, it should be ok. However, to be safe you can use an XLR panel instead for patching microphones.

@mauiztic Год назад

@@AudioUniversity thank you!

@richtoon Год назад

Is this possible? I want to run a mixer into a patchbay that will have at least 6 synths. 3 of those synths can sample. I want to use the inputs of those devices through the patchbay. I then also want to individually connect 9 different FX Pedals in the patchbay so that I could connect which ever synth to the pedal or a series of pedals to record on my PC or one of the samplers. And finally, would it be easier to reroute the audio chain back to empty mixer channels, then out to my monitors? Or should I patch the monitors to the patchbay?

@josiahsmiley8477 Год назад

Could you clarify for me? Your boom mic for example that you showed; how is it going into the patch panel? Is it via a snake that converts to trs? I’m assuming you don’t just do all xlr to trs cables for your microphones?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

That particular microphone is actually hard wired to the back of the panel with an XLR to TRS cable because it never gets disconnected. However, most mics patch to the XLR panel which is connected to the back of the patchbay.

@yungifez Год назад

Yo love your videos

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Thank you!

@yungifez Год назад

@@AudioUniversity i have an ultra small room an old speaker, a bashed up mixer How can i optimize sound here

@AudioUniversity Год назад

It might be helpful to use headphones. But as long as you can learn what your room sounds like and how that translates to other systems, you’ll be ok.

@josephsmith6042 Год назад

@@AudioUniversity I'm still finding it difficult understand this video

@yungifez Год назад

@@AudioUniversity thanks Overall, ive got a good sound I just fight with feedback a lot

@GearZenChannel Год назад

So, if I want to go with a patch bay I need to but a boatload of XLR to trs adapters for my microphones?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Rather than connecting the microphones directly to the patchbay, I’d recommend an XLR patch panel or XLR snake that is connected to the back of the patchbay. Something like this: imp.i114863.net/YgMaGB You will still need to either solder TRS connectors to that or use XLR to TRS adapters. The benefit is that the mic panel/snake is always connected to the patchbay so you can simply connect your mics to that panel with XLR cables.

@gabesyverson6246 9 месяцев назад

What are some reasons to connnect my turntable to a patchbay?

@jackmmarsden 4 месяца назад

So do I need an xlr panel? My interface has only 4 in and 4 out. If I connect all of those ins and outs to my patchbay, where do I plug my mics in?

@lawitt 7 месяцев назад

How about microphone inputs? I have been considering a patchbay for quite some time now because it's a real pain to always switch cables with my 2 in 4 out interface (SSL 2+). I have some synths, guitar fx pedals, a record player, a dj setup, etc. AND a Shure SM7b. How can I connect my XLR mic to the patch bay so that I can fully utilise my patchbay in the best way possible? Thanks in advance!!

@user-bn1id5zm8j 11 месяцев назад

This might be a real stupid question but how do you connect a xlr mic to a 1/4 Jack patchbay? And do you do the same thing for the xlr panel?

@user-bn1id5zm8j 11 месяцев назад

Just read a reply from you for one of the old comments and it totally answered my question about this and how you should use Xlr to Trs for a mic and how to connect a Xlr rack panel to a Trs patchbay with a Trs to xlr so thank you so much and I love your videos and you so thank you😊

@curt118 6 дней назад

This is awesome but I have a question...At :24 you said the top row in the back are inputs and bottom rows were outputs..I thought it was the other way..outputs usually on top and inputs on the bottom...I'm probably wrong, but i'm thinking of the patch bay as an extension of what is being connected to it..can you clarify? Thanks so much

@recordedbasics4990 Год назад

stupid question if i want to use a condenser mic wich needs phantom power and route it to a mic pre via the patch bay do i provide it with an external phantom power suply or ?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

The TRS patchbays in this video can pass phantom power. Just make sure to disengage phantom power before connecting or disconnecting the mic on the patchbay.

@edbarry1724 Год назад

Question Are you using an XLR to male TRS for the mic? If so how is the phantom power getting to the mic ? Thank you

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Phantom power can travel through a TRS connector.

@sanchopansen4431 Год назад

Great video. Where did you get that template? Do you mind sharing it maybe?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

That is the template for the Neutrik patch bay. It’s called PatchLabel. You can download it on the Neutrik NYS-SPP-L1 product page.

@sanchopansen4431 Год назад

@@AudioUniversity Nice, thanks for the reply and keep up your great work. Cheers!

@mekhicoffer710 11 месяцев назад

just one thing. the outputs are on the top and the inuts are the bottom row

@LeopardBull5trik3 Год назад

Hi there, how can you use a jack patch bay with condenser microphones? I have an 18i20 too and I still can't fathom how you would use a patch bay for condenser mics. Would you just keep the two inputs at the front of the 18i20 spare for those mics?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

The patchbay in this video can pass phantom power. Is phantom power your concern?

@LeopardBull5trik3 Год назад

@@AudioUniversity yeah that's my concern. Could you explain what the cable chain would be please?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

The microphone will connect to the patchbay with an XLR to TRS cable and the patchbay will connect to the interface with a TRS to XLR cable.

@LeopardBull5trik3 Год назад

@@AudioUniversity excellent thank you for the reply. And it's the Samson patchbay that allows phantom power to go through?

@AudioUniversity Год назад

Glad to help! Both the Samson and the Neutrik patchbay pass phantom power.

@junkstar45 Год назад

Aren’t the top the outputs? You said inputs

@m3n4cE6 Год назад

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@chittibabu1920 Год назад

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@ryang9529 Год назад

Might've just been a mistake on your end, but the top jacks are typically outputs on patch bays, not inputs.

@AudioUniversity Год назад

On the rear panel, they are inputs that correspond to the output jacks on the front panel.

@silkroad1201 9 месяцев назад

Why the f*** don't they make a rack mountable 16 point patchbay? I have 8 more channels on my console that need to be patched in, but I don't need 48 freaking points! I guess it would be ok to have extra room for more gear in the future, but my brain doesn't work like that lol. I don't like spending money on stuff I don't need yet. (which is also why I've only used 24 of 32 channels for the last 8 years)