Mic Cable For Nt1000

[Judge]

I'll be pickin up my mic (Rode Nt1000) tommorow and i need to know what chord i should pick up. Now i'm not an expert but i'm assuming that a radio shack chord wont be the best thing i can do. Now in case your wondering i'm pluggin it into my joemeek vc3q so can anyone tell me what i should be lookin for in a mic chord?. I have checked the search function and haven't found anything real helpul as far as mic chords go....though i have found out i need to get 14 gauge speaker cables and it dont neccesarily have to be monster ahahaha.....i think i got blue bear to thank for thanks

thanks ppls

[thecongo]

monster is always a good way to go. mogami also has high quality stuff. just find a decent cable, cheap cables can be the death of you.

[littledog]

I'm kind of partial to Db7(#11)

But seriously, I've only seen mogami sold as raw cable to mak e your own. Try the B.L.U.E. line if you are looking for ready made. Guitar Center sells them.

[dragnalus]

try going to ebay and searching for "mogami xlr" or something like that. i did and found this company called hotwired cables that sells preassembled mogami cables with neutrik connectors for about the same price yr local music store sells generic cable for. i got a 10' and 15' for $40 including shipping and found the folks there to be very nice indeed.
oh yeah i use them for an nt1000 and 603s into a spirit f1 mixer and am quite pleased.

[sjjohnston]

What I think is that mic cables don't make a whole lot of difference. Maybe if they're 200 feet long ... but not in a home studio (if you're running 200-foot long cables in a home studio, you've got a really big home). The main concern is that the connectors should be good enough, and well-enough assembled, for your purposes. If you're buying cables for a live-sound company, "good enough" in this context means "quite good indeed," since a failure could cost you very large multiples of the price of the cable. In a home studio, the situation isn't quite so dire. In branded pre-assembled cables that you find in stores, something like Horizon, ProCo or Hosa would be fine. This is just what I think, and I gather it's probably a minority opinion, so you can disregard it if you want.

Markertek sells premade cables, and will make them with whatever wire and connectors you want. They carry Belden, Mogami, Canare etc. and any sort of Neutrik, Switchcraft etc. connector you might want.

You might take note of the price of raw cable: Mogami mic cable, for example, goes for 39 cents a foot; you can get Belden 8412 for 47 cents a foot. I don't think that much of the price of a pre-made cable goes to the wire: a fair amount goes to the connectors and the work of attaching them, and (depending on the brand) something between pretty much and a lot goes to retailer markup, marketing and manufacturer's profit.

[thecongo]

from past experience...crappy cables do kill you off. i had all these outboard effects running and if you bonked one cable youd get the sound through the mix and it ruined it. but that is like really crappy cable.

also, mogami cable is sold with connectors from online companies you just have to look.

cheers!