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Post by nick8801 on Sept 13, 2024 8:58:36 GMT -6
About to redo my rack. Have had my trs snake out from my Lynx into my patch bay, and then a cable from the bay to my monitor controller. Is this good practice? Should I buy some cable extenders for the trs outs and avoid the patch bay? Are there any other solutions you guys are using. Just looking for the best quality solution. I could move my patch bay to the desk, and see if the cables reach the bay and the monitor controller, but I’d rather not have the patch bay and the cable mess on my desk.
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Post by notneeson on Sept 13, 2024 9:25:55 GMT -6
About to redo my rack. Have had my trs snake out from my Lynx into my patch bay, and then a cable from the bay to my monitor controller. Is this good practice? Should I buy some cable extenders for the trs outs and avoid the patch bay? Are there any other solutions you guys are using. Just looking for the best quality solution. I could move my patch bay to the desk, and see if the cables reach the bay and the monitor controller, but I’d rather not have the patch bay and the cable mess on my desk. You don’t want too much cable strain, some snakes have a kind of harness thing you can use to keep the strain on the more robust part rather than where the individual channel wires meet the TRS hardware. I used a bunch of extenders on my TRS cabling, but mostly because it was such an awful mess if I didn’t do it that way. And I think normalling to your monitor controller is a perfectly fine practice. |
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Post by doubledog on Sept 13, 2024 10:51:38 GMT -6
yeah, for short runs it's probably not going to make a difference. I don't run my monitor outs to the patch bay because I've never had a reason to patch anything else in there. I can always send something out on another pair if needed. but all of my other ins and outs go through a normalled patchbay (so I can insert an EQ or compressor after a preamp, etc.) and then all my preamps are connected to those same patchbays so when nothing is patched in, the pres are connected to the inputs.
And I'm about to redo mine as well. A couple new DB25 to TRS snakes arriving today so I can hopefully install the new Orion32+ and get it all connected up. I realized that with my Apollo 16 I never connected inputs 1-8 to the patch panel. instead, I just have a DB25 to DB25 snake connecting my API 8B to the interface directly. So the new snakes are to "fix" that and I already order a couple more of the same snakes to expand my I/O and then I'll eventually buy another pair so I can utilize all of the I/O on the Orion - only going to have 24 I/O hooked up right now. Snakes are not cheap.
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Post by ericn on Sept 13, 2024 16:15:14 GMT -6
I’m of 2 different minds on this one, absolutely best sonic practice on this one would be to home run a cable from the converter to the monitors or monitor controller.
In the real world, I love everything on the bay for both simple troubleshooting/ fault finding and being able to easily reconfigure everything.
If we are talking a typical TRS bay, total crap shoot on weather the bay or the extension is better.
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Post by nick8801 on Sept 13, 2024 17:04:53 GMT -6
Just rewired everything. Left the monitors in the bay for now. Next time I have a little extra cash I’ll pick up some quality extenders. I think I saw a proco that locks. For now all is good. Just curious what best/common practice was. Always fun to experiment anyway!
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