Hi,
I was planning to start soldering my new cables for my new home studio during the next couple of weeks. Of course I had prepared a plan of how my gear should be connected before I even had bought the cables or the equipment. However, yesterday I received some less positive comments regarding the combination of my gear and the way I was planning to connect it. As the person is a professional trainer of a school for audio engineering I try to listen and learn. On the other side I cannot get rid of the feeling that there's more than just right or wrong when it comes to organizing the studio.
That's why I would like to learn from your suggestions and ideas to see if you can help me to find other ways to get my studio up-and-running.
The situation / set-up is as follows:
1x 32/8/2 analog mixer
2x 48in/48out patchbays
2x large diagr. mic.'s
1x tube micr.
2x cond.mic.'s (with average quality)
1x mic. pre-amp
1x stereo tube compr./eq.
1x stereo reverb
2x computer interface with each 8in/8out
2x synth.modules with each 4 out's

My point of departure/personal preverence was that I'd run close to everything through the patchbays to create the most flexible working area, while using 10 chanels of the analog mixer as follows:
8x ch. > drumsounds (comming from plug-ins)
2x ch. > cd player

I am really curious about your suggestions
and hope that it's not too much asked.

Kind regards,
pedwin

Well...you are not really saying HOW you are going to wire everything...and what the objections were coming from your friend...?

I like everything wired to a PB too...so nothing wrong with that, assuming you have enough points on your PB.

Also...forget about putting the mic pre inputs on those PBs (though you can take the line-outs of the pres to those same PBs). I would have a separate XLR-based preamp-inputs-only PB for the mic pres inputs…it will keep the signals cleaner…and less issues when using phantom power.
You really don't want to mix them with your line in/out PB connections.

With 96-in and 96-out points...you can chew up a lot of them with the mixer alone. If you decide to wire the mixer’s SND/RCV connections...then you will need to normal them (assuming your PB can do that...otherwise, my preference is to wire everything else non-normalled.
Yeah...it takes up a lot more PB points to do that (I have a few hundred points)...but it makes for the most flexible PB approach, IMO...though you will ALWAYS have to patch any/all of your points.

Other than that...it's just Inputs and Outputs.
You wire as many as you have available on your PBs. How you groups/layout your PB is a matter of personal preference...but try to keep it neat and logical....AND LABEL EVERYTHING!

HI
thank you for the advice this has helped me also

Everything via patch bays is definitely yields the most flexibility, but given the amount of gear you have, it's a waste of cabling IMO, unless you plan on buying a lot more gear in the very near future.

Plus, you'll need a lot more than 2 patchbays.