Patch bays

[maxaroo32]

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to explain what they use their patch bay for, specifically. At my university, the patch bay is used to connect the sub-outs to the inputs, but for some reason I'm thinking that there are other ways of connecting things. If I'm wrong, oh well.
Also, I was planning on purchasing the edirol fa-101 firewire audio interface and was wondering how a patch bay would improve the set-up.
Any opinions would be appreciated!
-Max

 

[johnwy]

Its the quickest way to connect external audio gear and re-route audio signals to different channels and recorders to the changing specifications of different clients/engineers/projects/songs. The bigger the console (or DAW set up) and the more gear you have, the bigger the patchbay you may have.

In the case of use with the Eridol, having a patchbay (in front of you) beats having to rewire the unit from the back if you need to modify your set up.

 

[Teco-Teco]

You can read more about this at:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec99/articles/patchbay.htm

and

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See some examples here:

http://www.stretta.com/~matthew/resources/rackwire/patchbay.html

I hope you enjoy it.