Digital Patchbay

[Baba Omar Jun]

Any one out there with a good recomendation for digital patch bay?
Thanks 4 your recommendation in advance.

[Jules]

I picked one up second hand, aint tried it yet, looking forward to it.
Jules

[Arno Peeters]

There's a cheaper one for around $325 (SPDIF & optical): the Digi' Max by FriendChip (German): http://www.friend-chip.de/prod.htm
or http://www.sfb.net/matrix1.htm
Bought three for some studio's I was equipping: nifty stuff...


An what about these:
(Fostex) http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/...stex/DP-8.html
(Midiman) http://www.midiman.net/Html/products/digi2.htm

Thanx oh Holy Search Engine !



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Arno Peeters
www.tapetv.nl

[Polaris]

Zsys makes a 16 i/o AES/EBU digital patchbay which is very cool. Routing via software, you can save patching presets, and its only 1U high. Kind of $$$ though as I recall.

[Barnabas]

I used a regular 1/4" TRS patchbay for both analog audio and AES/EBU digital. I patched digital signals to and from my PT to a DAT and a DA88. I kept the analog at one end of the bay and the digital at the other end. I used AES/EBU cables for the digital patches. I never had any problems. Was I lucky, or would a cheap patch bay work just as well as a "digital" one?

I rearanged my studio and I'm patching digital by hand from machine to machine now without a patch bay.

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Chris Droessler
www.barnabas.com Barnabas MultiMedia

[Dr. J]

Barnabas, you probably weren't luckey. If you record a signal to PT, or any medium, through a TRS 1/4 in. patch bay, then bypass it, and record the same signal direct, you should hear a signifigant difference in audio quality. The digital units are definately worth the $ if your are using digital equipment running through it for tracking or critical reference. If, however, you are simply plugging in some tape decks or cd players, for ref. to a mixer,you could get by. But for the critical stuff, or mixdown a/b ing, you want to keep that signal pure and clean.
BTY, Z-SYS, AWESOME!

[plenky]

i use a akai DP88 since 5 year 24 hours a day, did not have any troubles.
dont know if its still made, but maybe u can find it secondhand

and yes! live is so much easier with it

[plenky]

i use a akai DP88 since 5 year 24 hours a day, did not have any troubles.
dont know if its still made, but maybe u can find it secondhand

and yes! live is so much easier with it

[Polaris]

Speer:
Jitter my boy, Jitter...Its subtle but real. The digital PB's (the good ones anyway) have shielding and buffering to keep the clocking in tolerance. As with all this stuff, its how much you wanna $pend. Remember Anal-retentive does have a hyphen! <Grin>
-Polaris

[Baba Omar Jun]

I thank you all for sharing your view, I have place an order for the z-Sys custom configuration, 6x AES/EBU & 2X S/PDIF. which can handle 24bit-96 Khz and as well multiple clocking. should be here by friday next week, would report later.