Half-normalled means the top jack listens and the bottom jack interrupts. Every patchbay mystery — including why patching something in muted the channel — is that one sentence.
A patchbay is the neck of a studio. Every console channel, every tape track, every microphone line and every outboard unit is brought to one panel, which is what makes a facility reconfigurable in seconds instead of an afternoon spent behind racks with a torch.
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