MoogerFooger Rack

Lengai · Post by **Lengai** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:56 pm

I finally finished hooking up everything (Hosa TS VC cables) in my MF rack with ezratrice's help. Here is a link to the pictures:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/djlengai/ ... f3&.src=ph

The rack is a dual 16 space side-by-side rack I bought from Ebay's seller racktopiaracks. The Voyager and the MF's are run to the patchbays and the lower patchbay has a 6-way and four 4-way mults. I still have to run the audio cables to the patchbays which I hope to have done in about a week.

OysterRock · Post by **OysterRock** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:16 pm

Sweet! What brand of patchbay are you using?

OLFAudio · Post by **OLFAudio** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:12 pm

Hey man-
Looks great. Did you end up having to use the trs patchbay at all?

Lengai · Post by **Lengai** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:52 pm

OysterRock,

I used 2 Behringer PX2000 patchbays (TS - unbalanced).

ezratrice,

Now that you've showed me how great they are, I will be setting up the rest of my gear's audio to patchbays (where I may need the TRS one) and then to the three 8 channel mixers into the computer. I figure I can run all the audio ins to one patchbay and all of the outs to the mixers on the second one. Of course, now I have to get all of the extra cables which will take time.

I use Monster for the Voyager and Sweetwater Sound's ProCo cables for everything else.

My mixers are TRS so I may need the TRS patchbay to them, but I have to be careful not to mix TRS and TS so, if I don't use it for that, I'm sure I'll find a good use for it in the future.

monads · Post by **monads** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:08 pm

That's pretty sweet man. I kinda want to do the same, but I don't feel like buying additional cables and another patch bay right now. My environement is mixerless. I just patch an effect into the patchbay as I need it. Hmm...I'm gonna think about this more now when I get home....

Oh, my patchbay is DBX PB48 if anyone wants to know.

Lengai · Post by **Lengai** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:08 pm

monads,

Thanks. It took me a couple of years to get all of it together, and I still have to wait for the audio cables to come in to finish it. The patchbays do help a lot to cut down on the spaghetti. Without a mixer do you just use the master volume on the Voyager to set the recording volume or do you play everything live? Is the DBX PB48 TS or TRS?

monads · Post by **monads** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:44 pm

The DBX PB48 is a TRS patchbay. But you can use unbalanced cables. With regards to the Voyager master volume, not quite. Yes I use the Voyager master volume. But I have an RME Octamic plugged into the DBX, and all my intruments plugged into the DBX. I can amplify whatever I want. The RME Octamic feeds an Apogee AD-16X converter which is connected to an Lynx AES16 card. It works perfect for me. I don't do alot of live tracking as it's just me. For monitoring, I have a Grace M904b unit connected to my monitors. Don't want any digital attentuation going on. This setup works for me. There's a million ways to setup a homestudio and I spent countless hours on my setup. Hope this give you a different perspective.

monad