cables and snakes

[pfr]

I'm in the process of setting up my mobile live rig to record my two and three piece acts. I was looking for some short XLR snakes to go between the iso-xformers and the pa and another to go into my interface. i ran accross pulsar tech on a google search. they seem quite economical and boast quality and "pro audio" in their about page. anyone heard of or have any luck with these cables?

[Rodgre]

I've never heard of them, but I'm wondering if they're not getting their stuff from China like Orange County Speaker. They're an Ebay store. I have bought some cables from them, which work fine, but the connectors are a little tight.

I spent less than a minute on Pular's site and I found a typo, so one thing's for sure. You don't want them to build your website.

EDIT: I have spent two minutes on their site and I have had a good chuckle at the expense of their "Artists" page. I know. It's mean.

Roger

[WillMorgan]

I hope i can piggy back on the general subject line in this topic for the benefit of all.

I'm looking to run a snake from my basement recording setup, to my living room directly above because it has a great, wood laden, room sound.

I am thinking i want six channels, a couple to monitor, and four inputs.

I have two questions about snakes for this purpose:

1) Are snakes now or likely soon to start becoming commonly available in combined Mic and 1/4" TRS plugs? I haven't found any with those new sort of connectors and for space saving it seems like those would give me some flexibility to use any channel as either a headphone jack return or a mic input.


2) Could I order up a 25' snake with a slim connector in the middle that i could use to feed through a narrow hole drilled in my floor? The living room woodwork is 90 years old and I'm no carpenter so it's either buying a two part snake with a slim (DB25?) connector i could feed through a smallish hole or doing the soldering myself on at least one side and making it permanent.

I'm guessing a connector half way through might screw up the shielding and/ or cause reflections but it sure would be nice to plug and play this way.

[qball]

I still continue to recomment HotwiredCables for any quality custom snake, patch or mic cables.

[Phiz]

I'm guessing a connector half way through might screw up the shielding and/ or cause reflections but it sure would be nice to plug and play this way.

At audio frequencies and lengths of 100s of feet or less, you will not have a problem with a mid-point connector. If you were putting radio frequency signals on the wire, then you'd need to worry about such issues.

[WillMorgan]

Thanks Phiz for the word on reflections. I am seeing pre-built snakes with either TRS to DB-25 or Mic to DB-25 so i'm thinking i could get a couple of those and a coupler to do the job!