Patchbays create a central location where the inputs and outputs of your equipment can be easily accessed. Professional studios and location sound companies rely on patchbays to move sound between consoles, instruments, effects, and recorders. It saves time and creative energy, and reduces wear and tear on equipment.

AP Audio's unique, modular solution to the patchbay provides an easy and inexpensive way to customize and fit your needs.

Features
Brass with silver-plated contacts for low noise, low corrosion.

Quick and easy normalling changes — no switches, no solder.

Bottom panel design for PC cards provides secure strain relief when "cable loaded."

Easy-to-rotate modular PC cards.

View gray colored de-normalled jacks from front panel.

Customize your bay with interchangeable modules.

Superior plug fit — "hear the click."

Extra module included.

Easy to read signal path diagrams.

Writeable designation strips.

Examples of How the Signal Flow Works in an AP Audio Patchbay
Mixer to Recorder
Mixer outputs connect to the top back row of the patchbay. The signal flows to the Recorder's inputs through the bottom rear row of the patchbay.

Multed Signal
Connecting the inputs of a second device (recorder, mixer, etc.) to the top front row on the patchbay will cause the signal to be split, or "multed." The signal flows to the top front and bottom rear jacks simultaneously.

Adding Effects
Effects inputs connect to the top front row of the patchbay, and the effects outputs… read more connect to the bottom front row. This breaks the signal from the top rear row to the bottom rear row on the patchbay, and the "effected" signal is passed through the bottom rear row and into the recorder.

De-Normalled Mode
When a vertical pair of patch-points is independent of each other and the signal does not flow down from top to bottom, the pair is in De-Normalled Mode. The signal passes straight through the patchbay. You can denormal any channel by rotating the PC card 180 degrees on the horizontal axis. read less