to starquad or not to starquad that is my question

[wang191]

I want to put up a mic & send/return feed from my recording desk to my live room (granted they are both in the same area but i hate having the mess of wires to work around at my desk).
Typically I feel the need to use starquad for all mic cables but I wanted to hear some other opinions. Would sheilded audio cable be ok for these mic runs. Maybe 30 feet at most. I can pick up a spool of Belden 9451 and do the mic ties that way or get some multiconductor starquad. Just trying to guage the project before I start one way or the other.

Thanks for any advice you may give.

[tmix]

W,
I got talked out of using Star Quad by a Beldon rep. He said that unless I had an area that prone to a lot of electrical noise or I was passing the wires down a conduit with other electrical / electronics wiring, the noise rejection characteristics of the star quad was wasted. He said the sound quality on low impedance shorter (underr 100 ft) runs was the same on good quality sheilded cable as long as the wire guaging was about the same.

For what its worth.

Tom

[riffy]

Have you thought about just getting a short snake? I use a 50' snake for purposes similiar to yours. You can have them custom made too.

like this

[pdlstl]

Hi,

I use these in my studio.

12x4 Snake

8x4 Snake

[riffy]

Originally Posted by pdlstl

Hi,

I use these in my studio.

12x4 Snake

8x4 Snake

Wow, those are pretty cheap.

[orksnork]

Originally Posted by riffy

Wow, those are pretty cheap.

that's dirt cheap!

[travelin travis]

i'm pretty close to sigler (the ebay seller of those snakes). we've been using one live for a while and it's held up good. the one we have is the 12/4 50'. the people at sigler are pretty decent folk too. i would'nt hesitate to recommend the snakes or the store.

[wang191]

Yeah, at first I was looking at snakes but I recently aquired some cable. So I was just going to buy some neutrik connecters and build my own cable drop boxes. I think i'm going to run 8xlrs, 4 rca unballanced, 4, 1/4 inch trs, 4 bnc feeds, and 2 cat5 connections per drop box. Plus wiring this myself gives me ability to make the cable run just the right lenght to lessen the potential for noise.

Even if i bought a snake i'd still have to cut off the xlr connecters at the one end and make them 1/4 trs to fit my patch bay, although it is less work than soldering both ends.

Half the fun of a studio is working the design details out. haha.

Anyone here have any more suggestions? yay or ney for star quad.
So far we have lots of neys (i'm counting the snake comments as ney).