Mic cable, to snake or not to snake.

tommyd1 · Post by **tommyd1** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:59 am

I'm about to order some mic cable for the studio. Any pros/cons for choosing a snake cable as opposed to running individual wires? I was about to order a snake cable, but then thought that if one of the wires inside the snake failed, I'd have to replace the whole snake.

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:42 am

Tommy, rather than repeat I'll link to your thread at StudioTips -

http://forum.studiotips.com/viewtopic.php?t=1492

HTH... Steve

hugo_inside · Post by **hugo_inside** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:09 pm

is "snake" type multicore? I don't know the colloquial word for "snake"

thanks

Post by **Aaronw** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:18 am

Basically "multi-pair" cable or "multi-core". Same thing.

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:45 am

You got it first time, Hugo; even included a picture

... Steve

LiveWire · Post by **LiveWire** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:21 pm

tommyd1: It is so rare if ever that a channel of a multipair fails. Don't worry about using Multipair. I use it in every studio i design and install and never has there been a problem.

If you are worried run the next size larger and have the spares like if you needed 4 ch run 8 pair

www.livewiresi.com

Mick@itc · Post by **Mick@itc** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:25 pm

Hi all

A search of snake Vs Cable info leads me here and although J-Lo's rear anatomy is an interesting subject I need some more information. My situation is the same, wiring my new studio and want to use a Mogami or Canare.
Understand the practicalities of cable v snake but my question is more about sound/transmittion quality. is there any degradation in quality between individual cables and Snakes? I.E. will a snake cable perform as well as a bunch of individual cables in a studio installation context.???

Mick

Sword9 · Post by **Sword9** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:39 pm

Cables are cables, whether bundled or run singularly (is that a word?). The quality of the cable or snake is always dependent upon the characteristics of the individual cable itself either way.

AVare · Post by **AVare** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:41 pm

is there any degradation in quality between individual cables and Snakes?

All else being the same (same basic cable type), there is no degradation in qualty between cables and snakes.

Clearly;
Andre