Patch Work: Studio Wiring

Patch Work shows which connector is plugged into which. Not as a list, but as a picture: devices with their real front and rear panels, cables running from socket to socket, and a rack where everything sits exactly where it sits in the case. THE CATALOGUE 313 devices from cameras to routers, with 128 connector types, 89 signal types and 506 true-to-scale connector panels. Every socket is where it really is on the device — redrawn, not guessed. Anything missing you add yourself; your own devices then behave like all the others. EVERY SOCKET KNOWS WHAT IT CAN DO Not just what it looks like: which signals it carries, in which direction, at what level and up to what data rate. An SDI output is not an SDI input, 12G is not 3G, and line is not mic. And the devices know what is wired inside them: which input can reach which output, where a router puts anything on anything, where a converter…