{"id":3791,"date":"2022-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2022-09-21T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:23:15","slug":"what-normalling-what-difference-between-full-normal-half-nornal","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-normalling-what-difference-between-full-normal-half-nornal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Normalling?  What&#8217;s the difference between Full-Normal, Half-Normal, and De-Normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>Normalled patchbay<\/em> has vertical pairs of jacks (usually In and Out) where audio automatically flows between the two jacks. Usually, patchbays rear panel connections have some option for normalling. Normalled patchbays can be Full-Normalled, or Half-Normalled<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Full-Normal<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n<p>Rear panel connections are linked, <em>but<\/em> are broken when a front panel connection is made.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Half-Normal<\/strong>:<\/h5>\n<p>Half-Normal bay is one in which the rear panel connections are linked, a connection made to the top row of the front panel does <em>not<\/em>\u00a0break the link, but a connection to the bottom row does break the link.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>De-Normal<\/strong> (aka Non-Normal or &#8220;isolated&#8221;):<\/h5>\n<p>Rear panel connections are not linked to each other\u00a0and\u00a0are routed directly to front panel connections.<\/p>\n<p>(eg : top rear &lt;&gt; top front)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>:\u00a0Also<em> take a look at the diagrams provided with your patchbay for changing normalling configurations.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/roland-spd-20-copying-patch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roland SPD-20 Copying a Patch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/roland-m-300-video-tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roland M-300 Video Tutorials<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/roland-cube-40xl-foot-switch-jacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roland CUBE-40XL Using the Foot Switch Jacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/how-do-i-route-audio-in-the-antelope-audio-orion-32-control-panel-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How do I route audio in the Antelope Audio Orion 32 control panel software?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/how-do-i-reset-the-audio-settings-on-my-orion32-plus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How do I reset the audio settings on my Orion32 plus?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[124067,55455,124071,124066,124072,124069,124073,124068,124070,124065,124064,34710],"storecat":[],"itemids":[10339],"manufacturers":[33293],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the What is Normalling?  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