Advice on a good patch bay

[kaomao]

Yes the title says it all I need to buy a good patch bay.
There are many options in the market from behringer (I hope is not that bad, the price is tempting) to really expensive ones.
I can spend up to 100 euros! no more!

cheers

 

[sprack]

I have 2 of these. Zero complaints.

 

[Trevoire520]

Even on Gearslutz the Behringer and Samsons seem to get very good write ups. Don't think you can go wrong with them to be honest.

 

[kaomao]

yeah I see the behringer been used a lot, I guess the only piece of equipment that is worth it.
The cool think you can flip the mode (normal-halfnormal-thru) without opening the unit or reversing some board layout (like on the dbx).
I guess I'll take that

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

The Behringers are pretty fine AFAIK.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

I'm using this one:

http://www.neutrik.com/en/products/audio/patch-panels/1/4-patch-panel/nys-spp-l1

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I'm using the Neutrik one as well, no complaints.

I setup the Behringer one for a buddy and thought it was pretty well constructed for behringer and didn't introduce any noise that I could hear into things so that's another option.

It was a lot easier than the Neutrik to setup due to the switch system (you flip the cards around in the Neutrik one).

 

[C-Martin]

I use this one:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/P48/

I wanted a normalled patchbay so i chose that one over the neutrik. Switches in the back lets you change from normal to half normal on individual channels without having to open it. I'm sure the neutrik is great if it suits your need but make sure you read all about the different configurations and understand what you need for your setup before you get one. Another one i've looked at when shopping for a patchbay was the DBX one and i would avoid it, it looked solid from the front but when looking at the back you see that there's not much holding the cards in place and this made me doubt how reliable it would be. The cards were sort of loose and would probably break after extended use just by the weight of the cables.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

You can do normal, half, and thru with the neutrik one. You just flip the cards around.

Not as simple as ones with switches though (like the behringer)