jirbling rake wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 10:55 pmThis was a good idea. I wrote and asked them after seeing your post. Saturnworks said they don't/won't make a footswitch like this.

Maybe I should contact our resident Dr about this...

Ah, bummer. FWIW I looked at their prices for a comparable footswitch and you’d probably be paying the same or more for the other one you had mentioned in your last post.

Good luck. Maybe Calling Dr. Balls may prove fruitful?

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:35 pm I’ll check out those Behringer things. I’ve been putting it off because I use every i/o on my Midas Venice 320, even with only 16 i/o and its a bit overwhelming.

Slightly more expensive but highly reccommended are the Samson S-patch Plus.

https://samsontech.com/products/studio- ... atch-plus/

There are loads of people on GS that rate them highly, I have a couple myself. They run about $190/£150 new.

Curry Pervert wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 7:23 am

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:35 pm I’ll check out those Behringer things. I’ve been putting it off because I use every i/o on my Midas Venice 320, even with only 16 i/o and its a bit overwhelming.

Slightly more expensive but highly reccommended are the Samson S-patch Plus.

https://samsontech.com/products/studio- ... atch-plus/

There are loads of people on GS that rate them highly, I have a couple myself. They run about $190/£150 new.

I have used these too and they are also good. I like that the Normal switch in on the front because I have to unrack the Behringers to change them. I will add with the Behringers you have to pay attention because the PX 3000 is balanced, and the PX 2000 are unbalanced, and other than the little text there is little to no indication on the bay which one you have. I goofed and bought the wrong one once. 1/4" TRS is the way to go IMO. My Mic XLR boxes even go through them so I can Overpatch into any preamp from either side of the wall if I want.

So between the two, I need MULTS for the way I track and monitor. I need half the track being recorded going to the recorder and the other half going to the mixer for live monitoring. Its pretty much always preamp > capi vc528 > roger mayer tape sim > y-cable unless I run out of channels. I’m not doing parallel processing.

I understand the Samson can do it in half-normal without y-cables - can anyone confirm? Can any patchbay do this without fucking around too much?

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed Jan 14, 2026 6:49 pm So between the two, I need MULTS for the way I track and monitor. I need half the track being recorded going to the recorder and the other half going to the mixer for live monitoring. Its pretty much always preamp > capi vc528 > roger mayer tape sim > y-cable unless I run out of channels. I’m not doing parallel processing.

I understand the Samson can do it in half-normal without y-cables - can anyone confirm? Can any patchbay do this without fucking around too much?

Behringer patchbays can be set for Non Normal, Normaled, and Half Normal.. I also built a little box in a hammond box with 6 TRS in parallel so I can drop mults where needed.

I need an analog line level tone generator. There are a lot to options online bur some of them are weirdly expensive, which I feel is unnecessary for my needs. I don’t really care what I end up with but xlr, 1/4” line outs, and a recommendation would be nice.

With the way I work I use a lot of i/o with not that many tracks and I’m tired of the stupid Reaper tone generator and dealing with monitoring and all that. I just want to send a line level 100 hz or 1 or 10k tone where ever I want at the patch bay without a bunch of dicking around.

I went through a whole thing where I was trying to calibrate two audioscape 1176Ds on the stereo mix and kept getting screeching feedback until I opened up a new project. Then it happened again when I was trying to match up two tape sims. No more. Fired!

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 10:51 pm I need an analog line level tone generator.

we have these.

https://sonnect.com/product/sound-bulle ... sPAUUiWBoH

and yeah it's kinda stupid expensive but great. there is a knockoff by Xivve that is cheaper. Q Boxes are total shit. when I need something more custom it's the reaper generator and returning to Melda Multi analyzer... but that's a lot of blah blah. I also have a thing like this but not exactly. it works.


https://www.amazon.com/1Hz-500kHz-Gener ... 53&sr=8-5