I bought a patch bay and I eventually got it hooked up but I don't really understand what normalled, open, half normalled and parallel mean. I read the manual but I am still confused.

what is this all about

Ok here goes:

OPEN the top jacks are not related to the bottom jacks i.e. no signal passes from one to the other unless you physically patch them to one another. Used for channel insert sends and returns.

NORMALIZED the top jack is connected to the bottom jack, signal passes from top to bottom without the use of a patch cable. If a patch cable is inserted signal path is broken and the connection is severed. Used for aux sends/returns

HALF-NORMALLED the top and bottom jacks are related like a NORMALIZED configuration however when a patch cable is inserted into the top jack the signal is multed, split. The signal continues to pass to the bottom jack but it is now split and runs through the patch cable so that you can also jack the signal in elsewhere

Hope this helped

It was nothing I hope it made your life easier.

stay cool

yea great post i was confused about this one to.

Thanks for sharing

no sweat, I do what I can. Also eg is a great resource for gear info. He has done tons of research on DAWS and sound cards. he is also a nice guy willing to share the info so feel free to ask

which patch bay should I buy for my set up I have been looking on ebay and there are sooooooooooooooooooo many which one do you suggest?

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