How to USE A PATCHBAY | Spectre Sound Studios TUTORIAL

How to USE A PATCHBAY | Spectre Sound Studios TUTORIAL
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I'm Glenn Fricker, engineer here at Spectre Sound Studios. I love making records, and after doing it for sixteen years, I want to pass on what I've learned. On my channel you can find tutorials on how to record guitar, bass, real drums and vocals. There's reviews and demos of tube amps, amp sims, drums, mics, preamps, outboard gear, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, and plugin effects.
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[braaaaacks]

I won't lie, I laughed when Aquabats started playing. Not because I dislike the song, I actually love it, not because I think it's weird that Glen is working on something non-metal, I think it's good to diversify, I'm just so conditioned to hearing metal on this channel, that hearing something like Aquabats out of the blue kind of caught me off guard and I fell over laughing.

[wfrancis]

As an RF Electronic Tech, I'm so happy to see the DB25 still has a functional purpose

[Eventual]

I see the 1/4" crowd has already chimed in. I'm in that camp, but use Switchblades for all of my patch building needs. Signal splits, 1/2 Normalling, this is the 1st time I've heard about it so I will watch and rewatch this video. For me, all of that is within my routers, but they're not line level and would not function as you require. Must learn more about patch bays! Thanks Glenn!

[creativesoundlab]

Haha good one - I've cut my voice off too mid video by trying to explain the patches. Great video man! Cool to see what you use for pres and processing.

[King-Kore-studio]

I never realized how much fun it is to have a patch bay, until I started getting more and more outboard gear. Now I need another one.. 😎 Excellent video Glenn🤘🤘

[olivierarnold_]

Respect for not making the video 10:01 long, there is nothing wrong with it but not doing so does show something

[PurpleMusicProductions]

I just purchased a patchbay and it does make the connection process much easier, plus it's a great way to not wear out your inputs and outputs swapping on expensive gear. See even as a bass player I understood it lololol

[wrowell]

We had one in every studio at the recording school I went to but they never got used. Our instructor never taught us how to use the rack equipment and had us do everything digitally. Thanks for explaining this to us. Cheers from Tulsa, Oklahoma

[TwilightZone]

I think it would be very cool to see a tour of your studio and give a quick description on what the various things are and what they are used for.

[pipelineaudio]

I know some of our former interns watch this channel, but for those who haven't, their rite of passage was to start a full 4x24 standard TT patchbay build, 1/2 normalled, to ELCO 96's at the point where the incoming interns reached the start of the fourth and final they had to win. Epic times and epic fails! Patchbay philosophy was a lot of what went into the heart of REAPER's design. I always said, give me the computer equivalent of a patchbay, a soldering iron and a screwdriver

[snorkygroovitz]

Patch bays have always confused me. Much clearer now. Thanks for the easy to follow and no BS explanation. Your tutorial vids are awesome.

[dynamorphic]

"Well if you have a degree in piano, then probably not, because you already know everything"
LMAO

[jimmiedabug]

Holy crap, Finally someone made patch bays make sense

[shadowstryfe]

Never would have penned you as a ska fan. Absolutely love that Aquabats song!

[guille_gldn]

Oh god! Thank you!!! thank you and congratulations for the simplest and easiest way to explain a patchbay flow. I've been days figuring out how to route my studio into a patchbay and this has been an amazing pain release to my problem! Now I have everything clear so I can route my studio whatever I like into my patchbay. Thank you again :). The only thing I cant figure out is if I need a bigger interface for my outboard gear, or an AD/DA converter will do the work. I will appreciate so much if you could take time for showing some light to this little problem. Thank you again for this helpful video.

[beardguitar]

Cheers from Sussex, NewBrunswick! Your videos are the best. You're giving me a degree in Metal!!

[volcaniadread]

hey man thanks a lot for the video! I'm still confused tho.. could you maybe tell me pls where I put the outs of my compressor and the ins so I could connect to it from the front?

[raicho]

I don't yet have my degree in piano, but will be starting my bachelor's degree this fall. Do I need a patch bay, or?

[TheSaniwaa]

I think ReaInsert deserves an episode on its own

[InIdGr]

I want to be an Audio Engineer and I appreciate A LOT these videos. Than you!