XLR Wall Mounts?

[esamaxe]

I'm building a studio, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a company that sales mic wall mounts of different sizes (16 xlr fem, 8 xlr fem, etc.) Also they have to be quick cause i need the stuff by wednsday or thurday. Also, is it hard to wire everything? My plan is to run the wires in the wall into the control room either into a trs patchbay or my tascam m2600 (24. ch) mixer. I have a guy whose helping me build the studio, he's great all around and knows electrical work. He could do the soldering if needed and other stuff. Does anybody know what exactly needs to be done? do you solder individual wires to each xlr connector, then run all 16 wires through wall, then solder on some trs or xlr connectors to the other ends and attach to the mixer or patchbay? I should have looked into this a while ago, but that's me! Can anybody help?

[bobx]

www.redco.com will have everything you need to wire your studio.

you can get 16 channel snake cable to run through the wall, which i think would be better than running 16 individual cables.

i'm about to hardwire my garage studio as well. i haven't decided which route i'm going to take yet. i'm thinking about using DSUB or ELCO connectors on each side of the walls. on the control room side breaking out to XLR or TRS to my mic inputs or patchbay. and in the live room breaking out to a 16 channel XLR input box.

just a suggestion, i'm no where near a pro but i just thought something like that could work. i'd love to hear some other opinions as well.

[esamaxe]

Good to hear from someone in the same situation. So how do you connect the snake cable on the other side of the wall mounts. Do you solder them together, or what else?

Do you know if running mics to the patchbay and normaling them to the hard disk recorder interface (Pro Tools digi 002, digimax fs (16 in) ), and also simultaneously patching them to the mixer is ok? The reason I would do this is to have monitoring (head mixes, control room) without latency, and also to have the shortest signal chain possible (bypass the mixer). Someone told me this might poorly impact the quality of both the split signals. I also have a dbx trs patchbay (not tt) so I'm not sure if this plays a big role. Lots of thinking going on!

[Hotstuff]

You could connect the mics to the patchbay but be sure to normal them to the preamps! you should only split the line outs of the preamps to send signal to your system and monitoring setup, so mult the line outputs to give you more options. Do a seach on patchbay setup to get some ideas.
Also check out Steve's new Recording Studio from the start
Here you will see hoy Steve setup his patchbay.

[uncle duncan]

What about just buying a snake and flush-mounting it in the wall, so it looks like a panel? No soldering. No chance for screwups.