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Requisite Audio does. And they make them for many recording studios!!! All the best, |
Recording studios typically do not use silver for interconnect as it would be prohibitively expensive as the runs can be quite long (input boxes, patchbays, console, etc). There can easily be thousands of feet of cable in a small studio. It would also be sorta moot because the XLR, TS, RCA or any cables the artists use in their own gear would be copper. That being said, some mastering studios DO use silver wire as they're mostly concerned with a stereo run or two in between a few EQ/Compressors. A lot of mastering gear is also modded to include silver. Actually just saw a Sontec EQ listed that has 50 years of mods including a silver wire swap. |
What I was getting at was that top artists record at studios that have state-of-the-art equipment. Those studios wouldn’t use interconnects that are lower quality than the rest of their gear. I expect that there are some people on the forum who are familiar with such studios. From the answers it looks like some use silver or similar ultra high quality cables. Others use regular commercial grade cable. |
Somehow, I don’t think top recording artists give 2 sh#%s what the cables are made of. Just FYI, some of the world’s most expensive cables use copper only. MIT, Transparent, Tara and Jorma come to mind. Actually, Jorma makes an all-silver digital cable. I was looking at it and then went instead with a Synergistic Research cable
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State of the art equipment is not the same as state of the art marketing. They use literally miles of cables, and just use good cable and probably a lot of XLR balanced gear. There is possibly some places that differ, and i am no expert on recording studios, so if there were some it would be interesting to know. |
Gold cables haven't proved popular Wonder why? But there are plenty of gold-plated connectors. Gold doesn't oxidise, so this obviates the need to clean connectors often. In many cables the cores are sealed by a partial vacuum that reduces the rate of oxidation, obviating some of the benefit of gold cores. Note, if you've ever opened up an old copper cable after years of use the cores are all blue. |
Fools prattle on about silver, ignoring what make cables sonics differ. Dielectric and geometry explain six nines of cable sonics. Internally, electronics have umpteen metal, plastic and resistive interfaces. SS gear adds uncountable metal / semiconductor interfaces. Tube gear adds oxidizing metal interfaces. Cables are tone controls and are system specific. See ieLogical CableSnakeOil |
I carried my own cables, mic pre, eq, level control, amp and speakers. My company did studio installation. Some studios were very specific as to cable, others, not so much. Some studios went offline for a month or so to be rewired. Some studios had a wide assortment of mic and instrument cables by Belden, Mogami, Canare, Monster, AKG, Neumann, etc. Some musicians were quite surprised when we changed a cable instead of a microphone to achieve a particular tone. Bottom line: It's the system. |
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Recording studios are not audiophile dens. They are a production facility; their widgets are recordings. High quality, completely reliable and interchangeable are the rule for their cabling. There is a studio here in Nashville being parted out. The are selling literally miles of cable: Mogami, Canare, Yaleflex, Gepco & Belden. Studios do not use simple interconnects with XLRs or RCAs; they use massive bundles with XLRs and multipin connections. |
Engineers are not fools.
Hogwash. Most had walls of individual cables. Snakes are used on stage for safety, but I never worked a session anywhere with a snake box on the floor. Typically for a large session, cables would run to a wall jack panel which could be wired with multi-conductor or individual cables. For vocals and overdubs, often we would run a single cable under the doors. Some studios had a few cables in soundproof pass throughs to connect directly from the mic to the preamp.
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Look at the dielectric and geometry. That is six nines of their sound, some of which are terrible in some systems due to their 'tortured' design. |
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