Tubedude,
The snake will pass through the staggered stud wall between the control room and live room of the studio I'm building. Of course it will be heavily potted in and as small a hole as possible made. I'll have a 24 line XLR panel on each side of the wall built into a wood enclosure. I already have the 2 XLR panels. The XLR connectors for one side are on the way via eBay. Separate cables would be much larger than a snake. 10' feet is actually more than I need but I've rather have several feet extending out of the walls for ease of soldering the connectors.
Check out my drawing over in the Studio forum.
DD