Black Lion’s Patchbay-equipped 500 Series Rack
Black Lion Audio’s PBR 8 500 Series rack was a huge hit at Sweetwater. Now, the PBR 8-500 ups the ante with a host of upgrades that boost performance across the board. Equipped with a fully balanced TT (tiny-tel, a.k.a. Bantam) patchbay, the PBR 8-500 is an 8-slot 500 Series chassis with unlimited routing options for quickly dialing in sounds without your modules having to be mounted in any particular order. That means with the PBR 8-500, you can easily audition a signal chain, re-route it, split it via one of the patchbay mults, send it to modules in another rack, route it back, then output it — all from the chassis’ front panel! The Black Lion Audio PBR 8-500’s exemplary flexibility makes it ideal for the complex signal chains and parallel processing that are commonplace in modern studio operations.
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Custom-tensioned, gold-plated connections
Maintaining signal integrity while providing versatile routing, 500 Series racks play a crucial part as the centerpiece of today’s studios. Black Lion Audio’s fastidious attention to detail ensures that the PBR 8-500 is the logical choice to serve in this critical role. Designed with the same indestructible build quality of Black Lion’s industry-standard PBR series patchbays, the PBR 8-500’s front-panel patchbay now features custom-tensioned TT jacks that are gold plated (as are the XLR and DB25 connectors on the rear panel) for optimized, audiophile-grade conductivity and signal clarity.
Clean, isolated power with plenty of current
The engineers at Sweetwater know that power is the backbone of your entire 500 Series rig, and it can determine how well everything performs. That’s why Black Lion leverages On Slot technology to ensure that clean, isolated power with plenty of current is delivered to each of the PBR 8-500’s eight slots. You can rest assured that noise or crosstalk from one module will not affect another, thanks to per-channel power regulation. The chassis’ beefy power supply provides a maximum of 400 milliamperes per rail per slot, with an overall 1.6A (1.8A non-continuous) per rail for the ultra-quiet, reliable performance you expect from Black Lion.
Black Lion Audio: the mod squad
Founded in Chicago in 2006, Black Lion Audio has made its mark on the audio industry by hot rodding audio equipment and upgrading the sound quality of popular music production gear, elevating industry-standard products to new levels of sonic quality. Though the company started off modding gear from other manufacturers, the staff's cumulative expertise has resulted in a distinct line of boutique mic preamps and word clocks. BLA gear and modded gear can be found in studios from Los Angeles to New York to Nashville and heard on projects from artists like Maroon 5, Alison Krauss, Metallica, T-Pain, George Strait, MGMT, Beyoncé, George Duke, Slayer, Erykah Badu, Rod Stewart, and more.
Black Lion Audio PBR 8-500 Features:
- 8-slot 500 Series rack/PSU with built-in patchbay
- 8 stereo-linkable slots
- Front-panel TT patchbay: 8 ins and outs; 2 mults
- Gold-plated XLR, DB25, and TT I/O
- Clean, isolated power with plenty of current for each slot
- High-current audio rails for low noise
- Chassis strategically drilled to optimize heat dispersion
- Maximum phantom power current: 140mA
- Operating voltage: 100–240 VAC
