Would these snake cables be decent? Why are they so cheap?

[madbutcher]

http://www.seismicaudiospeakers.com..._Channels:16&sortBy=price+desc&categoryId=517


I am looking to get a snake for recording and these seem to be about half the price of most I see. Do they suck? and why?

 

[arvoitus]

You get what you pay for.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I'm guessing here but the way companies save money on snakes:

PCB inside the housing instead of ptp.
Cheaper connectors.
Less robust cable.


All that said if it was me personally and the thing was never going anywhere I would risk it. If I needed something that that would take a beating on a tour or something I wouldn't.

 

[Manicompression]

I've bought cables from siesmic before. Just patch cables and other weird ones. They are still working fine but they dont get moved alot.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I'm using a cheap snake at the moment and it's been going fine for a year. If it breaks I won't be to pissed about replacing it, but all those things I mentioned are what made it cheap to buy.

 

[madbutcher]

Thanks for the replies dudes. Mine wouldn't get moved much but around my basement setup to record things. No live applications. So would the "build toughness" probably be it? I'm fine with being careful, I just want to make sure I am not going to get a signal from a mic that been somehow degraded down or sonically worse by this in comparison with the more expensive ones.

 

[Sloan]

I actually just scored a seismic audio 24 channel snake for super cheap used recently. Everything on them is generic, meaning not neutrik or switchcraft connectors etc. The stage box part seems a little cheaper as well, mine is bent in the middle somehow (probably warehouse damage), kinda funny.

I did a lot of searching around recently and find that a lot of cheaper stuff is rebranded anyway so you may find the same product offered by different companies.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Thanks for the replies dudes. Mine wouldn't get moved much but around my basement setup to record things. No live applications. So would the "build toughness" probably be it? I'm fine with being careful, I just want to make sure I am not going to get a signal from a mic that been somehow degraded down or sonically worse by this in comparison with the more expensive ones.

I'm guessing you will be fine for some time as long as you don't walk on it or move it around a lot. Like I said my super cheap one has been going for a while now without a hiccup.

The connections on mine look like knock off neutriks, but I've been fine with it.

 

[ArthurD]

Just buy bulk at redco.com
Don't buy cheap cables, you will have to buy again soon. Just invest on good cables.

Mogami or Gepco

http://www.redco.com/Mogami-W2938.html

 

[RevoltStudios]

I've bought all the cabling for my console from Seismic Audio. I got the metal tips and they are thicker and better quality than most anything else aside from really expensive stuff. Best customer service too. I ordered a snake they didn't have so they gave me one much longer for same cost.

 

[bryan_kilco]

I bought a really cheap snake....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/XSPRO-12-X-...bles_Snakes_Interconnects&hash=item1e85290195

Worked fine. Only used it to track drums so far.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I bought a really cheap snake....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/XSPRO-12-X-...bles_Snakes_Interconnects&hash=item1e85290195

Worked fine. Only used it to track drums so far.

Yeah that's the snake.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Yeah that's the snake.

Guessing that's the one you have?

Before I got that, I had been setting up a laptop in the drum room and always, always, always had at least 1 or 2 mic cables that weren't even touching the floor because they weren't long enough. That snake saved my ass and allowed me to setup outside the drum room and (sort-of) hear what was actually going on with drum tones.

 

[derekmoffat]

I have that same XSPro snake. Works great. I've been using it for 2+ years.

 

[aortizjr]

Check out the snakes from MCM Electronics.

They are super inexpensive and not terrible. I have used their 24 channel, 16 and 12 channel ones live and in the studio. You can't abuse them, but they have survived a dozen or so gigs so far no problem.