SAMSON S-PATCH PLUS - 48-Point Balanced Patchbay

Product Information

The dust, the spiders, the cat hair, and other surprises aren’t worth the trouble, especially when there’s an affordable and genius solution on the market. You can design your layout in a way that makes sense to you, create a diagram or memorize it, and cut your time tinkering with cables to almost no time at all.

TRS cables can carry the balanced line level signals that come from the output of mic preamps, outboard gear or hardware like synths, samplers and drum machines.

Similar Threads

I’m assuming that if you’re unfamiliar, you thought that these patch devices all worked in Thru mode by default, but that’s not the case. Let me show you why with the simplest example possible. An Over-Simplified Patchbay Setup Example I assume sound and noise wise all of these options should be equivalent as they arent doing anything other than collecting inputs and going from 1/8 TS to DB25. But you want your “main take” to run through a compressor and be squashed like a bug so everyone can understand you. But first it needs to run through your EQ for a little clean up action. To make matters worse, both versions have to come from the preamplifier!

A normalled (or full-normalled) patchbay means connecting a cable to either the top or bottom inlet will break the connection immediately. There is no rewiring in these cases so even the casual user is beginning to be confronted with the issue of using a patch panel. A patchbay is a piece of gear that houses all the input and output connections for the essential gear in your studio.

The first way to wrangle in all of the possibilities is to setup your patchbay in a manner that greatly reduces your options. In the same way, it brings you into alignment with other professionals and also keeps you organized. In the end, it may take some experimentation or looking at another tutorial to fully manipulate these monsters, but once you know how to use a patchbay the right way, things will never be the same. Just for my curiosity, I tried it and both have the same issue, lower and better than px3000, but not 100% isolated in thru mode.

A 48-point TRS patchbay is probably the most common format for home studio usage. While there are plenty of options out there on the market, the build quality and features still matter. DYI or external patchbay (not sure if external patchbay does much for me, the conversion from patch cable to DB25 can be done via the snake cable) They basically don't exist in a space and/or cost - efficient format. The bulkhead type design above is the best one IMO but you only get four connections in 4HP, other designs end up with shedloads of permanent cable mess at the front which I'd guess is exactly what you're trying to avoid. These bays are typically used to move single XLR connections to a more convenient location for direct patching.

Find the Best Patchbay for You at Sweetwater

You may find yourself wondering, “what are patch cables?” They are just like every other recording studio cable but shorter, usually 1.5 feet to 3 feet. They’re short because they’re only used on the front of the patchbay, and any more length than that would create a mess of dangling cables… NW2s::o16 unbalanced + DB25 multicore cable (cons: 10HP and a bit more expensive than alternatives)