Hello everyone,
I need some advice on wiring up a small patchbay. I have 4 wireless channels and a Shure SCM268 mixer in a portable rack case. I want to put a patchbay on the back to make it easier to hook up when I use it. I would like to have 5 XLR jacks on the back, one for each mic channel and one for the mixer. That way I can either just hook up the mixer to a speaker/amp/external mixer if I want to use the SCM268 to mix the mics, or I can hook up the four mic channels individually to channels on an external mixer if I want more control.
Ideally, when nothing is plugged into the mic outputs on the patchbay, the signal will go to the SCM268, but if I plug in a cable to one of the mic channels, then the signal would be cutoff to the SCM268 and only go out the patchbay. My understanding is this is called normalling the channels. However, from what I've been able to tell, there is no such thing as a normalling XLR jack (would need to be 1/4").
My question is, would it be OK to hook up a patchbay for this purpose without worrying about normalling the mic channels? Or is there a better way to go about setting this up?
I need some advice on wiring up a small patchbay. I have 4 wireless channels and a Shure SCM268 mixer in a portable rack case. I want to put a patchbay on the back to make it easier to hook up when I use it. I would like to have 5 XLR jacks on the back, one for each mic channel and one for the mixer. That way I can either just hook up the mixer to a speaker/amp/external mixer if I want to use the SCM268 to mix the mics, or I can hook up the four mic channels individually to channels on an external mixer if I want more control.
Ideally, when nothing is plugged into the mic outputs on the patchbay, the signal will go to the SCM268, but if I plug in a cable to one of the mic channels, then the signal would be cutoff to the SCM268 and only go out the patchbay. My understanding is this is called normalling the channels. However, from what I've been able to tell, there is no such thing as a normalling XLR jack (would need to be 1/4").
My question is, would it be OK to hook up a patchbay for this purpose without worrying about normalling the mic channels? Or is there a better way to go about setting this up?