I am getting really tired of having 50 million cables running all over my studio...
But since this is a home project studio, I do not have any permanently installed cabling, although I am considering it as an option.
Right now, what I would like to do is to build a small 8-channel snake for the drum kit to run from one end of my studio to my recording desk (about 27 feet). I would then have just a single large-diameter cable stretched across the length of the room.
Mogami makes some pretty good looking oxygen-free multipair cable that I can get for about US$2.20 a foot (8 channel). I am guessing that it is most likely 28 gauge wire.
Am I going to lose signal quality by going with this multi-pair cable rather then the nice high-quality cables that I so pain-stakenly soldered?
There has to be a better way then to have this spaghetti mess that everyone is tripping over.
I am also making a headphone snake, but I am not as concerned about that...
Comments? Thanks!
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You shouldn't loose any signal quality. Most major studios are
You shouldn't loose any signal quality. Most major studios are wired this way (with a snake) and the multipair stuff is usually 24 or 25 gauge. I like the Belden stuff, but Mogami is fine as well. All the wiring I've ever done for runs is multipair. I've wired the last 2 studios I've ran and worked in. Just be prepared to get that soldering iron hot and spending some quality time with it. ;-)
On other thing you should do, after all your wiring is done, is to get a multitester and check to make sure that you did wire everything correctly and that there isn't any crosstalk between wires.
Brad