I was planning to use D-Sub looms but then I had a brainwave. I could wire these to the Krone blocks as the cable would be very similar to the PSN20 I was using, with the bonus that they would be much cheaper than the D-sub looms. You can see them in the image on the right. They are the multi-coloured wires on the bottom of blocks D1 and D5 and they are on the top of blocks D7 and D8.
In case you are wondering about the red block at the bottom is an earth block, and for some reason, they come in red! Once the 8 block subframe was completed, I could then continue to make the necessary changes in the second rack. Then it was time to rewire the master frame. Working down my pre-planned list, I first removed all the redundant jumpers, then re-routed the ones that needed re-routing and finally added all the new ones.
No one is perfect, least of all me and because the master Krone frame would be hidden once the equipment was refitted in the main rack, I set about testing everything, not just the changes I made, before I installed the amps for the speakers and the other units.
It was an ideal opportunity to make sure that everything worked as expected. This process threw up a few issues, 4 wiring errors and 2 faulty units. When I built this studio in , we had just bought this house and had to spend a lot on new furniture, carpets and a new kitchen so cash was limited and so I went for a Behringer line-level mixer and cans amp. The tests confirmed that the cans amp was faulty, but the good news was that I had a Samson unit in a flight case from when I was doing a lot of location recordings, so that was a simple swap.
The mixer also proved faulty with an imbalance in the signal level between the left and right outputs. So that will need replacing and it will probably be replaced with a Samson SM That is about it. I am still configuring the MTRX Studio but that process will be the basis of at least one future article just to cover the setup and configuration. Then there is the installation of the Dolby Atmos speakers.
For those of you who have been following my upgrade story, I chose to buy more secondhand PMC speakers to match my existing 5. The next task will be installing four PMC DB1s in the ceiling and adding a pair of TB1s as the side surrounds, which together with my three LB1s across the front will make my 7.
Mike Thornton has been working in the broadcast audio industry for all his working life, some 44 years. Mike has worked with Pro Tools since the mids recording, editing and mixing documentaries, comedy and drama for both radio and TV as well as doing the occasional music project.
Some Background As some of you will know I came into the pro-audio sector from an engineering background, more specifically electronic engineering. What Is Studio Wiring?
What Is A Patchbay? Need To Makes Changes? What Are Krone Blocks? Designing My New Studio Roll forward another 10 years, to us moving house and me having the opportunity to build a new studio from scratch back in Good Records Are Essential When I designed the studio, I also decided that the cabling records would be computerised rather than being old fashioned paperwork.
Jackfield Layout V3. Jackfield Layout V4. Once everything was planned, and I had booked a clear 2 weeks to be without a lot of the studio features, I started the rewire, first emptying the main rack to give me access to the master Krone frame I opened up the cable ducts again and spent a day clearing out the redundant cables. Testing, Testing, No one is perfect, least of all me and because the master Krone frame would be hidden once the equipment was refitted in the main rack, I set about testing everything, not just the changes I made, before I installed the amps for the speakers and the other units.
This makes it easy to patch one piece of gear into another. Some studios color-code their patchbays to help separate the different sections. For instance, you use different colors for preamps, EQs, compressors, and effects units.
Or, you could use one color for console connections, and another for outboard gear. Even using different colors for inputs and outputs can help speed things up.
Most manufacturers provide patchbay templates to help you line up the text to the connection point. The inputs are digitally assigned to DAW inputs. That will get sound from the live room through the console, into your DAW and back out of your speakers. But what about the rest? Remember, every patchbay is different. You may be doing some quick math in your head right now. Not to mention the inserts, auxes and anything else you may need.
If you have connections on your patchbay that are semi-permanent, normalling allows the signal to pass through without using a cable. You could normal these connections, so the signal flows without having to make a patch. Normalling comes in three different forms. Essentially, it controls how the patchbay reacts when a cable is plugged in.
Signal passes from the outputs to the inputs, without the need for a cable. The signal is broken when a cable is plugged into either the top or bottom row. Log In. All Posts. Try a Free Lesson. Disclosure: This post may contain "affiliate links," which means that if you click on the link and make a purchase, Black Ghost Audio makes a commission.
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