TheGuitarist
Well-known member
Ok so i'm ripping apart this neve 8128 patchbay ( the desk is only useful as channels with outputs via the insertion points.
EVERYTHING aside from the insertion points is on multicore looms, yay nice and easy to rewire into new patchbays. Insertion points, stupid ribbon connectors, so of course i have to manually get out the tester and find out what bit does what.
Now i'm assuming that its all unbalanced, but when i'm testing just using a patch lead plugged into the patch point and then measuring impedence on the pins, i can get ground on the ring, but i can't get ground on the sleeve... This may be a futile question and the answer is just bridge ring and sleeve on the new patchbay, but i thought i'd check if anyone knew if it held any specific reason for doing this.
If not, oh well, just bridge the two pins and have an unbalanced section of my patchbay (it normals into the -10dbu inputs on my PT rig anyway)
EVERYTHING aside from the insertion points is on multicore looms, yay nice and easy to rewire into new patchbays. Insertion points, stupid ribbon connectors, so of course i have to manually get out the tester and find out what bit does what.
Now i'm assuming that its all unbalanced, but when i'm testing just using a patch lead plugged into the patch point and then measuring impedence on the pins, i can get ground on the ring, but i can't get ground on the sleeve... This may be a futile question and the answer is just bridge ring and sleeve on the new patchbay, but i thought i'd check if anyone knew if it held any specific reason for doing this.
If not, oh well, just bridge the two pins and have an unbalanced section of my patchbay (it normals into the -10dbu inputs on my PT rig anyway)