Re: That is a full plate to consider.

Posted by Haldor (A) on March 14, 2002 at 16:36:20

In Reply to: That is a full plate to consider. posted by Pengiun on February 25, 2002 at 17:36:16:

You want mics that cost less than $250 each and you are talking about using silver audiophile cables? Put your priorities straight. Get better mics and use good quality commercially made cables.

Not to rain on your parade, but mic cables need to be flexible, non-microphonic (since they get moved around while you are using them), and durable. I doubt if homebuilt audiophile cables (no matter what kind of metal they are made out of) are going to perform as well as any decent quality commercially made mic cable. If you can point me to any serious recording engineer who uses homemade silver mic cables I would be astounded. All of those recordings you go wow over on your tweeked to the max, hi-fi system were recorded using plain jane copper conductor commercial mic cables.

If you are serious about making your own mic cables, then be sure to use twisted pair wiring with good coverage braided shields (french braid is best). Don't try to use single ended cables for your mics or your noise floor will go up. Besides any decent mic-preamp is going to expect XLR connectors anyways. If all your stuff has are 1/4" connectors, then you have junk gear and all the fancy cables in the world aren't going to change that.

Phil

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Topic - Need a good stereo mic pair for under $500... - Penguin 10:12:24 02/23/02 (18)

Comrade, Try the 'People's Neumann' - Bambi B 08:38:23 02/25/02 (3)

Re: Comrade, Try the 'People's Neumann' ... ditto - Greg B 11:19:12 02/25/02 (2)

Re: Comrade, Try the 'People's Neumann' ... ditto - Penguin 17:25:48 02/25/02 (1)

Re: Comrade, Try the 'People's Neumann' ... ditto - Bambi B 07:58:28 02/27/02 (0)

Asuume that i managed to scrape together $1700 for this. - Penguin 16:41:24 02/24/02 (3)

Re: Asuume that i managed to scrape together $1700 for this. - Roland 09:59:27 02/25/02 (2)

That is a full plate to consider. - Pengiun 17:36:16 02/25/02 (1)

Re: That is a full plate to consider. - Haldor 16:36:20 03/14/02 (0)

Re: Need a good stereo mic pair for under $500... - Roland 15:51:06 02/24/02 (0)

Some short mic reviews - Frost 14:50:05 02/24/02 (0)

Re: Need a good stereo mic pair for under $500... - Jitter_by_Coffee 14:46:38 02/24/02 (2)

That is an interesting suggestion - Penguin 17:52:35 02/25/02 (1)

Re: That is an interesting suggestion - Haldor 16:45:07 03/14/02 (0)

Difficult for $500... - j.l.guillebeau@att.net 14:39:59 02/23/02 (4)

Re: Difficult for $500... - Penguin 08:06:28 02/24/02 (1)

bite the bullet.. - j.l.guillebeau@att.net 09:47:41 02/24/02 (0)

Re: Difficult for $500... - Haldor 17:56:30 02/23/02 (1)

Have you ever used the QCT1s? - Penguin 08:32:18 02/24/02 (0)

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