Patch bay experience anyone?

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Tjrich12
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Patch bay experience anyone?

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I have a dedicated room for vocals and I want to keep all electronic equipment out of it. I want to run an xlr cable from my laptop(audio interface) to a wall plate with the cable below, with a patch bay cable inside the wall terminated with that wall plate on both sides of the wall to make it look good. I don't want to solder or use solderless stuff because the patch bay is a lot easier.

https://www.amazon.com/Seismic-Audio-SA ... on&psc=1My question:

Can the connectors inside of something like this connector below be taken out and replaced with the connectors already on the patch bay cable?

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... 4f0b9e6e56


Let me know if you've ever done something like this. Thanks!
Tjrich12
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Re: Patch bay experience anyone?

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FYI, I've used a much easier method before to do this if you ever have the need for a cheap fix...

Cut a piece of pvc pipe to the correct length for your wall(7 inches for mine), feed it through single gang wall plates on both sides of the wall and then use pvc end caps when it's not being used. Simple but not as professional looking as actual Xlr connectors. The pipe sticks out about 3/4" from the wall plates and I use a little tape around the pipe to seal it where it comes out of the wall plate.
Tjrich12
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Re: Patch bay experience anyone?

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Well, if anyone ever wants to know if you can do what I asked in the OP the answer is NO! I got the below answer from Sweetwater:

I saw the message that you'd sent in and wanted to get back with you. The short answer is that you couldn't really swap out the connectors on these plates for cable connectors. You would have to have panel mount connectors, so really the easiest way would be to snip the ends off of your patch cable and solder them to this. Let me know if you have more questions on that.
Saz
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Post by Saz »

Since you're just talking about 1 cable(even a few more), I'd make a way to run the cable through the bottom of the door opening(jam stop or threshold) and save yourself any future wall patching.

Don't ask how I know. :wink:
sinbad
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Or you could cut a hole in the wall and use these https://www.cableorganizer.com/desk-grommets/
easy :mrgreen:

PS. Just consider that every connection in a cable is a potential fault source. With a bulkhead setup you would have 4 extra connection points, two plugs and two soldered.
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