Flock Audio has unleashed their new innovative PATCH System, a digitally-controlled, 100%-analog signal path routing system, that combines their unique software and a 64-point hardware interface.
Flock’s PATCH hardware features four connectors — two inputs (on Neutrik XLR/TRS Combo jacks) and two outputs (on Neutrik XLR male jacks) on its front panel, allowing users to easily integrate any analog audio equipment or instruments into their recording setup that they are using at the moment. The other inputs/outputs, 32 in total, are located on the back of the unit. The idea behind Patch was for the user to connect their gear to the rear panel (including microphones – each input can be supplied with 48V phantom power via the software), and never have to crawl back there again. Need more I/O? The system can be expanded with additional hardware boxes, which the software will instantly recognize.
The built-in intelligence is able to detect whether a line input is attached to a specified phantom power and take corrective action, even informing the user of the issue.
“I started working on a conceptual design known as Patch in early 2016 when I decided to leave my stable career and chose to pursue the path less travelled of designing and developing a better and more efficient process for professional audio recording engineers from the depths of my basement home recording studio,” revealed Flock Audio CEO/Director Darren Nakonechny. “In need of a better solution other than the available 1870s technology known as a traditional patch bay, the concept was born to create a fully-digitally-controlled — but 100%-analog — circuit routing system that wouldn’t color or alter the audio signals passing through it. After two years of strenuous work and constant focus, Flock Audio, the company I started, created the world’s first and most advanced digitally-controlled analog audio routing system with features never before possible in conventional analog audio routing.”
Flock’s Patch costs $2,199 and is available now.
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