The Last Piece of my new Studio Puzzle - the Flock Audio PATCH XT

Описание: Analogue Patchbays - what is it? What's better in a creative situation? ARE YOU EXCITED OR WHAT!??!!!?!!?!?!?!?!

I'm a little more sleepy than usual - just coming out of an insane work bender. Listen to me yammer about the ubiquitous Audio Patchbay, some MEGA SUPER AMAZEBALLS Patchbay moments throughout my career, and ultimately arriving at my current studio build (which is near completion).

I'll be deploying the Flock Audio PATCH XT Digitally controlled analogue patchbay system in conjunction with using AES72-2019 to fly audio around the room using spools of CAT6 cable.

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Contents:

0:00 Yo!
0:34 What is a Patchbay anyway? (hey that rhymes!)
1:30 Common connectors
1:46 Bantam/TT and high density
2:37 Where in the studio?
3:00 Time and Planning
4:04 "Normalling"
5:06 Patching is easy.. but IMHO cumbersome for creativity
6:06 Digitally controlled analogue patchbays - why?
6:24 Secrets of stereo sales

6:34 Dating myself.. the 1st digitally controlled patchbay system I ever saw in 1998
7:50 Dating myself again.. the 2nd digitally controlled patcbay system I saw in 2001
9:46 Dating myself again again... the 3rd digitally controlled patchy system I saw in 2009
10:43 Almost near present time - when I discovered the Flock Audio PATCH in 2018
12:10 Gear-o-holic running out patchpoints... PATCH XT teaser in 2020 ... holy bananas!
12:59 Yuuuuuus. the PATCH XT has arrived in 2022!

13:29 What it'll route

14:09 Keeping the existing 32x32 PATCH - a test with Speaker routing for jumping between my primary output DACS and Dolby ATMOS authored content from a decoder

14:51 AES72-2019 - say what in the who now?

15:41 Here's the Flock Audio PATCH XT!!
17:15 Escaping running over to the computer to re-patch when working around the room
18:20 Eliminating my biggest annoyance with manual analogue gear recall
18:59 Multiple data locations/redundancy
19:24 The next steps...

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More info on the PATCH XT:
https://www.flockaudio.com/patchxt

More info on the AES72-2019 standard:
https://www.aes.org/publications/stan...

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Various analogue patchbay pictures from:

https://vintageking.com
https://audiomunk.com
https://ask.audio
https://hosatech.com/products/analog-...

The beautiful bantam patchbay wiring:
  / ams_neve_88r_patch_bay