Marie Kondo? Are you on TB? Home DAW Studio Organization help needed!

The short answer: find a specific place for every piece of gear, and invest a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars in cables and patch bays. Now you can quickly route any output to any input by just using a couple short cables.

Or buy an interface with enough inputs that everything is always plugged in.

Which is the best option? Depends on what gear you want to have ready to go and how much money you want to spend.

 

What are you micing, and what are you using DIs for? It sounds like a pretty small setup and 4 inputs would be enough to keep everything plugged in and ready to go. Certainly no need for a complicated patch bay for so few inputs. Are you singing while playing an instrument or doing vox separately?

Tell us more about what gear (interface, mics, DIs, amps, outboard gear, etc) you are using so we can make recommendations.

 

Your M Audio 610 has 2 mic inputs and 2 line inputs. Your Mesa has a balanced line. out:. Get an XLR to TRS to connect it to one of the line inputs.

The Two Notes CAB has unbalanced line level out, use a 1/4" to connect it to the other line in. I assume you'll be going from you Champ power amp into the CAB.

EDIT: Looks like CAB has a balanced TRS out, so TRS to TRS to the second line in

So now you have 2 mic inputs. Find a place to leave your vocal mic set up. Buy a second mic stand for acoustic.

So now leave everything connected all the time. Take time to make sure everything is convenient, and cables are all run against the walls.

Vox will always be on input 1, acoustic on input 2, bass DI on input 3 and guitar amp on input 4. With no cables to run, you can be tracking within a couple minutes, and minimal tear down time, too.

 

I was thinking of a different Two Notes product. The C.A.B. won't accept a speaker level. Only instrument or line. But you probably knew that already.

 

also consider putting your mics in retractable boom stands like you’d see in a broadcast studio. That alone has made my life simpler and my space less cluttered.

 

yes - give me a bit and I’ll check the brand that I have. Some even have the XLR cable built in.

 

I hang cables from cheap unfinished wall mounted coat racks in the stairwell that heads up to my studio.

I use a cheap tv as a monitor for a large visual workspace for Cubase. You have a lot of unused vertical space — would want the keyboards off to my right and some of the storage more to my left in that space. I’d also put the rack stuff off to the side instead of directly in front of the center of my mixing space.

 

This is the one I have. $145 CAD. K&M 23850 studio mic boom with table clamp