SIS/Monorail
With 5' of the company’s super-strong Monorail cable and eight of the smallest plugs on the market, this kit can help make use of every inch of a ’board.
Effects Pedal Cable Kit
This kit provides 10' of the company’s 155-gauge cable and 10 right-angle solderless plugs to assist in ridding a pedalboard of old and unmatched patch cords.
Pedalboard Cable Kit
Including 10' of double-insulated instrument cable with a braided-copper shield, 10 right-angle plugs, and a screwdriver and cable cutter, this kit has everything needed to keep things tidy.
BCK-24
With gold-plated contacts and 24' of low-capacitance, studio-grade copper cable, this kit will provide plenty of options for plenty of pedals, and is designed to transfer a signal with no noise interference.
Piston
Paired with Lava’s low-capacitance ELC cable (10' included), this kit’s low-profile Piston plugs are smaller in size than others on the market, which means more stomps on a pedalboard.
CrocTeeth
This pedalmaker’s offering includes 10' of thin and flexible MSL cable and 10 solderless low-profile plugs to build custom-length patch cables for clean and uncolored sound.
Pedalboard Patch Cable Kit
With no wire stripping and no screws to tighten or loosen, custom-length patch cables are a breeze with this kit, which offers a variety of cable color choices and small-footprint plugs.
SAPT205
While not solderless, this value-minded kit includes 15' of cable and 12 right-angle, low-profile adapters for easy access to jacks that have minimal space for connecting gear.
CK-6 Cable Kit
Able to make up to six cables, this kit contains 12 solderless plugs and 10' of stranded cable designed for the perfect balance of DC resistance and low capacitance for an unaltered signal.
DIY Patch Cable Kit
This kit includes 10 G&H plugs in a variety of colors, 5' of Mogami 2524 wire, and enough heat shrink (also in a variety of colors) to DIY five patch cables.
I love twiddling around with new gear at the music store and researching unfamiliar products online, but nothing beats a new product that is innovative enough to be appreciated at a mere glance. That’s the case with Planet Waves’ new Modular Snake System. Think of the system as a high-end stage snake without the bulky box head for the female ends, but made for studio use or shorter scale live situations. Here’s how it works: you buy the core cable in lengths of 5, 10 or 25’. Each end of the cable is equipped with db25 (printer-style 25 pin) connectors. You then buy the ends you want (ranging from $60-$100), snapping them on and securing them with finger twist screws. The ends, or breakouts as PW calls them, contain eight lines with whatever jacks you choose. You can buy breakouts of eight 1/4” TRS jacks, eight male XLR connectors, eight female XLR connectors and a combo of four male/four female XLR connectors (AES/EBU).
In other words, your snake is adaptable to multiple environments. You can even plug one end of the cable straight into a console without a breakout if your console is equipped with a db25 connector. You could use this system for any number of things – connecting studio components, snaking inputs to a mixer, running lines to multiple recorders, etc.
The snake’s actual multi-pair cable is made with oxygen-free copper conductors and 100 percent shielding. While testing a 5’ cable with XLR and 1/4” breakouts I heard crystal-clear signals and felt each connector lock solidly. The streamlined, sturdy design could only be knocked by someone needing core cable lengths longer than those currently available (though Planet Waves says a 50 footer is coming soon), odd breakout connector combinations, or the kind of signal neutrality that most people aren’t even aware of. If you’re looking for an intuitive and well-built system to keep your studio/stage cords in order, look no further.
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