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Please do not alter the configuration of the ARL without checking with the rest of the group first. If you want to temporarily add a piece of equipment, use the first two inputs on the bottom patchbay, and then patch it in wherever you need it to go. There should be no need to ever disconnect anything from the patchbay anymore; please don't do it.
If you think this is incorrect, and there's something you need to do which needs some kind of patching the current configuration can't provide, please talk to Eric about it first, so the configuration can be updated to satisfy your needs.
There is a logical "division of labor" between the output (bottom) rows of the two patchbays: the top patchbay normals the most-frequently-used equipment into the mixer, and the bottom one provides connectivity to the various other componeNts in the ARL which can take input. Between the two, the output from any piece of equipment (including the returns on the mixer) can be patched to the input of any other piece.
Here is the layout of the two patchbays:
The thinking for normals on the bottom patchbay was the following. Monitor output and Rec Out on the mixer are most useful for making recordings, so they go to the DAT and tape recorders. It's useful to be able to monitor separate mixes on headphones, so the Aux Send, which can be pre-fader, is normalled to the headphone amp.
The Korg Prophecy is being used most frequently for Mike and Paris's research project, so it's normalled into Reich's input. The other two pairs in use are not meaningful.
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