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I think I may have found my answer - a TRS to TS patch cord or a patchbay should solve my problem.
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You never said what your problem was? What's wrong with half-normaling?
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I was talking with a soundman last night over his mixer about this situation and he showed me a 1/4" patch cable that had ONE TSR 1/4" input jack on each end - but 2 wires between.
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Those have a seperate send and return on them. They are fully normaled. If you do it this way, you would have to send the audio from the mixer to the soundcard, through all of your computer stuff (and the latency that comes with it) and back to the mixer. Of course, you would be essentially monitoring within the software and defeating the purpose of monitoring with the mixer anyway.
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I just do not like the 'half-assed' nature of half-plugging my INSERTS.
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There is nothing half-assed about half-normaling. I've been doing it for years, when necessary. I've never had a cable ever pop out. It's always been very reliable.
In my opinion, you are completely wasting your time trying to invent a new knot for shoelaces while you are being chased by wolves. In other words, you are probably half assing about 20,000,000,000 things in the recording realm. (Everyone who hasn't dumped $4,000,000 into their studio is). So with that said, is your studio monitoring system accurate?
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One of my biggest challenges is time. Our 'studio' is not in my basement so I only have about 2 hours a week to work with signal routing issues. This time fights hard with our playing time too, as you can imagine.
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Join the crowd. We all have limited time. Because of this, we need to pick and chose our battles wisely.
That's my opinion.
Brandon