What's the deal with Mogami cables

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Rhythmschism said:
Hm so now I'm a little confused about the wattage of an appropriate soldering unit. Is 60 watts too much in that its just not neccessary, and a 30 watt unit would be all I needed? Or, is 60 watts going to complicate things when dealing with cables and should be avoided?

This is the unit I'm looking at:

http://www.itcelectronics.com/pdtl-revised.asp?P=2496
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That station will be good.
 
Have you guys ever made a multicore with a 56 pin Edac connector? You'll need a lot of patience and a lot of heat shrink tubing.

I made some ten or twelve of those cables and it really is a pain in the ass.

http://www.audiogear.com/EdcELcoCart.html

Look at the SolderEyePin near the bottom of the page, I've soldered some 1200 of them, sigh! :D
 
Han said:
Have you guys ever made a multicore with a 56 pin Edac connector? You'll need a lot of patience and a lot of heat shrink tubing.

I made some ten or twelve of those cables and it really is a pain in the ass.

http://www.audiogear.com/EdcELcoCart.html

Look at the SolderEyePin near the bottom of the page, I've soldered some 1200 of them, sigh! :D
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Yeap... piece of cake. :)
 
Rhythmschism said:
What are these used for?
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I have a DDA-AMR board which is a 24 bus board, wired for two 24 track machines.

When the board is in tape A mode, the tape B machine is via logic connected to the input modules (line), so I can mix 48 tracks automated with this board.

It has a patch panel with 112 tie lines.

On the back of the board there are 18 EDAC connectors, the two tape machines, the line in's, the monitors, the connections for the tracking room monitoring and the tie lines that are connected to the racks with outboard gear.

Each of these Edac's has 56 solder eye pins that must be soldered to the very tiny wires of the (Mogami in my case) multicores and pushed into the Edac, which is a rather small multipin connector, approx 3X6 cm.

That's a whole lot of work that took me a couple of weeks of hard labour.
 
Wow. I think I'll save that project for after I manage to solder my first 1/4" instrument cable. :)
 
you guys do realize that when you pay the rediculous price for monster cable, it does go to a good cause right?
when you buy monster cable, it has a lifetime waranty, if it shorts out, breaks, gets chewed by the cat, you towed your car with it, they have to replace it. and no i am not kidding about any of those examples.when their rep came and checked out the warehouse at MF they talked to us for a bit. i never knew this either. but you can take it to ANY monster cable dealer, and they HAVE to replace it, if they say they cant they are lieing, well unless they dont have the certin cord you need.

but anyways i like mogami alot better. both my racks are wired with it, all my instrument cords, all of my pedal boards are with goerge L, and all my speakercabs are wired with monster, and connected to the racks with monster. is there a diffrence, sound wise, not audibly notable. durability wise, the mogami is definatly more flexable and easier to use if you move around alot on stage.

mogami is the same way with waranty work, as long as you dont abuse it, they will replace it, but its not quite as cut and dry as monster is.
 
I have a whole bunch of Mogami TT patch cables that I'm using some eight years now.

Not one of them are broken yet, but they sure are pretty expensive (or cheap in the long run?)
 
revoltingyouth said:
you towed your car with it, they have to replace it.
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Now that's funny... and what's even funnier is it's true... and believe me I know... lol.
 
that was the first example the guy gave, "so lets say your tour bus or van is stuck in a ditch and you dont have a tow rope, just use your monster cable man. and if it doesnt work after that, just send it back to us, we will replace it."
all i could think of was, damn im glad i have a crappy car, and nice equipment.
 
I can't find the Star Quad on the markertek webiste. can anyone put a direct link??

thanks
T
 
Canare L-4E6S Star Quad 4-Conductor Microphone Cable

You could also search Markertek using Canare or Star Quad or L-4E6S.

I just finished up four Star Quad cables, and I think I might have done one right all the way through without messing something up. Yay. But now I've got my system down, and it's practically theraputic building cables.

http://www.haveinc.com/ has yellow L-4E6S for 25 cents/foot. Yellow only.

By the way, at a SynAudCon-ference last summer, a demonstrator moved bulk tape eraser over the length of a live mic cable. It only produced hum at the connector ends, presumably where the (regular, two-conductor) cables weren't twisted or sheilded by the third conductor. This demonstration was supposed to show that balanced cables do a fine job of bucking hum without four conductors and extra twisting.

(Notice I still bought Star Quad. It's the same price as two-conductor cable. Meh.)
 
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HangDawg said:
Awwww, now you've gone and gave away my source. Hopefully I didn't just buy the last 500':D
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But sense your such a great guy, you'd be willing to help out your fellow HR members by selling them some for the same price (or close to the same price) you paid for it if they really wanted some... right? :D
 
VTgreen81 said:
Has anyone seen a noticable improvement from switching to Mogami cables? Are they really that much better, worth twice-thrice the $$$ of cables by whirlwind, peavey,etc? :confused:

Or what about a Zaolla M25' for $232.95!!!!! :rolleyes:

If there's a reason to spend over 200 bucks on a cable how good can a $20 cable be? :mad:
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Here you go.......

I thought the same way. The Monster cable /other copanies high end bullshit is just that. However, let me tell you this:

With all these high end cable companies you will notice the same thing. They are built with quality components and GOOD soldering.

What happenned to me: I bought some HOSA cables to go from my mixer to my 24 track recorder. I was recording and noticed with hammond organs or bass (high energy signals) that there was some strange distortion. I tracked through the entire sound chain to find out if I moved any of the cables (at the connector ) the distortion went away. The HOSA cables were at fault.

These cables were BRAND NEW.

If you find that the sound is so much clearer and the highs are silky smooth, with much tighter bass, with Monster Cable (or the competition) then you need to see a therapist 'cause that ain't the benefit of quality cables. The real benefit is that they use good components, are built right electrically and mechanically to last.

I replaced with Mogami. No sound improvement at all. But, no static with high energy signals either.
 
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DJL said:
But sense your such a great guy, you'd be willing to help out your fellow HR members by selling them some for the same price (or close to the same price) you paid for it if they really wanted some... right? :D
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Sorry, but I need all of it and then some. I hope they have that sale price for awhile. At least I got the bulk of it.
 
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HangDawg said:
Sorry, but I need all of it and then some. I hope they have that sale price for awhile. At least I got the bulk of it.
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I was teasing... while at the same time curious what you'd say... anyway, I hope you find all the cable you need and at a good price. :)
 
thanks for that, the search and product descriptions on the markertek website isnt so great...

can anyone also tell me the part number for the male and female gold plated xlr cable ends? (not the connectors for mounting on equipment)

thanks again,
T
 
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