Do Recording Studios Use Silver Cables

Somehow, I don’t think top recording artists give 2 sh#%s what the cables are made of.

As a class, recording artists are like any other. There are some that extremely knowledgeable and some who are completely ignorant. Just like audiophiles. 🤣

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

The engineers don't take the time to even match lengths, let alone brand.

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.

And recorded some of it and mixed at Producer’s Workshop, one of the least "advanced" studios in LA at the time. But oh, the sound...

Correction: The Wall, not DSotM which was recorded @ EMI Studios, now called Abbey Road.

Recording studios are not audiophile dens.

Engineers are not fools.

Studios do not use simple interconnects with XLRs or RCAs; they use massive bundles with XLRs and multipin connections.

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.

I’m still stuck on the idea of “silver cables”. I don’t think silver cables are the “best” that would be too much!  A lot of high end cable use silver as ell as copper and gold as a blend to tame the silver, ie nordost, siltech, and analysis plus to name a few. 

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.