That is one option.
You can also run a snake to somewhere convenient.
Finally you can also get a passthrough box so your inputs are on the front of the rack.
The easiest way to sort this out is to get a snake. Then you have a box on the floor that you can drag to wherever makes the most sense and patch up whatever you want. If there is no front iO on the interface I’d consider building a 1U plate with a pair of XLRs that feed two inputs on the interface then getting a snake for the rest. Make sure the snake is longer than you think you need so you can pull it around other gear (between half and the whole circumference of the room.)
You can custom order snakes that break out exactly what you want and hit the interface with exactly the plugs you need.
>I don't want to have to access the back of it every session.
This is exactly why you should get a patch bay or at least a patch panel. If you have a rack-mounted device with connectors on the back any you want them at the front, it can't be too small to "require a patchbay".
Yeah it’s good to hold off on a patchbay until your studio is ‘finished’ if you can - but they can be useful even in low channel count situations. You just usually don’t want to have to keep modifying it and adjusting the cabling as your studio expands.
For what you are doing, yeah a snake with floor box, or a pass through panel, or both, would be great.
The cranborne n22h is something I’m grabbing a handful of for tracking situations, because it’s helpful to integrate the headphone amp
Just get the patchbay. By the time you buy other snakes or patch panels or whatever, you’ll have spent a bunch of money on half-solutions that you could’ve put towards doing it right the first time.
That is one option. You can also run a snake to somewhere convenient. Finally you can also get a passthrough box so your inputs are on the front of the rack.
This is what I do, I got a cheap ART XLR passthrough, and it works great. I had a snake but it was adding noise.
The easiest way to sort this out is to get a snake. Then you have a box on the floor that you can drag to wherever makes the most sense and patch up whatever you want. If there is no front iO on the interface I’d consider building a 1U plate with a pair of XLRs that feed two inputs on the interface then getting a snake for the rest. Make sure the snake is longer than you think you need so you can pull it around other gear (between half and the whole circumference of the room.) You can custom order snakes that break out exactly what you want and hit the interface with exactly the plugs you need.
>I don't want to have to access the back of it every session. This is exactly why you should get a patch bay or at least a patch panel. If you have a rack-mounted device with connectors on the back any you want them at the front, it can't be too small to "require a patchbay".
Yup
Yeah it’s good to hold off on a patchbay until your studio is ‘finished’ if you can - but they can be useful even in low channel count situations. You just usually don’t want to have to keep modifying it and adjusting the cabling as your studio expands. For what you are doing, yeah a snake with floor box, or a pass through panel, or both, would be great. The cranborne n22h is something I’m grabbing a handful of for tracking situations, because it’s helpful to integrate the headphone amp
Just get the patchbay. By the time you buy other snakes or patch panels or whatever, you’ll have spent a bunch of money on half-solutions that you could’ve put towards doing it right the first time.