Lesson 5 - Signal Flow and Patch Bay - Posted on 2013-06-02 by Matthew Furci

This lesson was very insightful. As the reading said (as well as Stephen), if you know where the signal is going to and coming from, you are a sound engineer. 

I had the opportunity to explore his Patch Bay, and he let me re-root signals, stop signals, divert signals, etc. We set up a return monitor for clients to hear their music back, speak to us through the sound room, and have control of their headphone input. 

I waited to post this lesson because Stephen wanted to take me on a field trip to McGill University, to check out their studio rooms, including their hundreds of patch bays. At McGill, I was able to see how routing works in a huge environment, as well as how routing is done for half normalled, normalled, parallel, and open signal routes.

Great experience, great lesson, i feel closer to becoming a sound engineer!