Millenium PB48

The item itself seems fine, but if you are not an expert Patch Bay user, or even if you are new to patchbays, you may find that the total lack of any information about setting up this item is a problem. For example it doesn't tell you, either with the patchbay, or anywhere else I can see that you may well have to take the thing apart as soon as you get it to make it work the way you wish. The item seems to be DESIGNED for this, as the way it works depends on which way the jack socket modules are inserted in the casing, but taking a brand new piece of equipment to pieces sort of goes against the grain, and nothing in the literature on the web site seems to indicate that this will be necessary. Pay attention to the "GREY" jack sockets position in the patchbay when you look at the diagram on top and you will be OK.

It's a patchbay, it's nothing fancy. If you're the sort of person interested in gold connectors and audiofile wotsits, then you wouldn't be looking at purchasing this patchbay.

If you want something cheap, reliable, does the job, then this right here is value for money.

Only thing I will add is that the documentation confused the absolute hell out of me at the time. I've had it so long now, that I forget what the exact issue was, something about how the normalization worked, I think. But I got past that hump, and it's been happy patching ever since.

It doesn't feel like top-notch quality, but you can't expect it to for the price. All I wanted was reliability, and I've got that.

To spare some of you the research:
To get this to work half-normalized, pop out the two flathead screws on the front panel and take the panel off. You'll see every channel is a detachable card. Take each of those out and switch them around, so that the grey jack is on the bottom of the front panel.

There is no video on Youtube on how to do that on this exact model but there is one about the Neutrik NYS-SPP-L1 patchbay which works just like this one does.

More expensive patchbays allow you to flick a switch for each channel to change the behaviour, for these cheap ones you'll need to pop them open.

I've never bought a patchbay before because there was always some more interesting piece of equipment that actually did something to the sound that could be bought for the same money.

This patch bay is so affordable it's really worth having to avoid having to keep going to the back of your outboard and plugging/unplugging things. In fact I'd pay more than this.

There's no mode switching options and I understand the durability may not be as good as more expensive patch bays if you're planning on constant use, but it's still very useful.