-=> Quoting Lee Jackson to All <=-
 LJ> Does anyone here have any experience with the Tascam PB-32 patch bay?
No but if over 30 years experience with Professional Audio will do....
 LJ> Anyway, the patch bay seems to be normalled, in that inputs in the top
 LJ> back part default to being routed to the outputs at the bottom of the
 LJ> backside. The connections can be overridden from the front by inserting
 LJ> a standard 1/4" plug into either of the jacks, top or bottom.  I have
 LJ> yet to figure out if the connections can be multed, but it doesn't seem
 LJ> that they can. None of the combinations that I've tried will allow a
 LJ> mix of an input signal from the front with the signal being fed from
 LJ> the back.  It acts like it takes either full default routing or full
 LJ> override, but nothing in between.
Precisely correct.  It is the function of a "normalled" jack to allow a
specific pre-determined routing for the connections, except when a plug is
inserted into either of the normalled pair of jacks.  At this point, all bets
are off, and the normals are "lifted" to allow each to operate on it's own.
Multipling of jacks is another story... to make a multiple on a professional
jackfield with a hard wired xmas tree block is fairly easy, you just wire the
number of parallel jacks that you want for the multiple.  "Project" studio
jack fields are designed for limited specific purposes and don't have the
flexibility of the "pro" types... they are supplied in the "most needed"
configurations and there isn't much adaptation you can do.
 LJ> We have purchased a dbx PB-48 as an additional bay.  It was a new
 LJ> piece of equipment (factory box w/manual), so I know that I can mult
 LJ> signals and even defeat normalling on it if I want to.
They must have separate switches to allow selectable defeating the "normals"
on each jack pair.
It sounds like the DBX jackfield is the more flexible and thus should be the
one to use with the selectable "normals".  I don't believe that the Tascam
will allow much, or any change, from the way it came out of the box.
 
... If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why
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