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Originally posted by n3lly Nice! If only they weren't in the states i'd probably give them my money. That's exactly what i was looking for though. I like the idea of making my own though now. A little project so to speak. Thanks a mill though.

Making your own cables is the way to go. You can make them how ever you want. You can also use a lighter on heat shrink if you have one handy.

I run multi core or a 4 pair of Mogami to both sides of my coffin. 8 lines total.

I like Freaks idea with the TT's. I removed the existing lines from 1210's and added Canare cable as the replacement. Instead of going up into the TT, I added a box on the bottom with RCA connectors. So then I can unplug the RCA's and not have them dangling when I have to remove a TT from a coffin. I also had the ground removed.

Freaks on target again.

Nelly, you could make em yourself but honestly I would just go with Van Damme Cable. I used to work for them and I can attest the are the best made cables I have ever seen. I've got them at home and they are the only ones that I can abuse endlessly and they just don't break. Looking at the soldering makes you never want to solder again - they are fucking artists and frankly made cable will probably only cost you £5 more from them.

This is what I have at home:

http://www.vdctrading.com/products_...ctID=1008#p1008

...and they can make them in any config you need, mutlicore or singles, with any tail length you want. Just ask them if you should go for the blue multicore or the hifi interconnect cable.

These will outlast your DJ setup and no one can ever mistake them for theirs as they can put Nelly on the Cables!

When I worked for them, we made all the cables for Liam Howletts studio (his personal one and the long term one at SARM west), Audiofly's and Coldplay's entire tour rig is Van Damme. Not to mention
every major studio and nightclub in the UK is nearly entirely Van Damme lines.

Seriously, just buy Van Damme and you'll never need to upgrade.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Freaks on target again. Nelly, you could make em yourself but honestly I would just go with Van Damme Cable. I used to work for them and I can attest the are the best made cables I have ever seen. I've got them at home and they are the only ones that I can abuse endlessly and they just don't break. Looking at the soldering makes you never want to solder again - they are fucking artists and frankly made cable will probably only cost you £5 more from them. This is what I have at home: http://www.vdctrading.com/products_...ctID=1008#p1008 ...and they can make them in any config you need, mutlicore or singles, with any tail length you want. Just ask them if you should go for the blue multicore or the hifi interconnect cable. These will outlast your DJ setup and no one can ever mistake them for theirs as they can put Nelly on the Cables! When I worked for them, we made all the cables for Liam Howletts studio (his personal one and the long term one at SARM west), Audiofly's and Coldplay's entire tour rig is Van Damme. Not to mention every major studio and nightclub in the UK is nearly entirely Van Damme lines. Seriously, just buy Van Damme and you'll never need to upgrade.

That's all well and good mate, and I do trust your opinion on this however. Having looked quickly at the price. We're talking £20 for a 1m length of RCA cable. I'll need ~8 of them.

I'm not about to drop ~£160 on cables???

Naming the cables would be cool of course but not cool enough for me to drop that kind of cash.

On a completely separate note, how do you throw up a link for someone to click on and it directs that person to a page and then automatically scrolls to the product you want to show them? I've seen this a few times and always wondered how you write the link/get the page to auto scroll down

Thank you.

Van Damme. Hmmm. I'll have to check those out. Do they sell their cable in bulk? At my sound company we mostly use Belden, Canare, Mogami, and Whirlwind. I'm always looking for new stuff. Thanks for the link.

@N3lly, I have six RCA to RCA @ 9 feet already made. They were left from an install I did a few months ago. Technically they're already paid for. I can send you them. 3 are blue and 3 are red with Neutrik RCA connector wired with Canare.

That's the retail pricing. Give them a call and get trade pricing

Bear in mind multicores are significantly cheaper than singles in scale terms so don't just multiply the cost of a pair to get the multicore.

But even so, I'm telling you, you will never have to replace your cables again which over 5 years is far cheaper than crappy hosa's or monsters which will go in year or so.

@katmaus - hinestly Van Damme are fucking superb and we also sold all the other brands but VD is just so much easier to work with. The micable and starquad is THE mosr flexible and robust I've ever worked with, and it's so damn easy to use. Even When I make Mogami or Canare over here, I wish I had vandamme as there's none of the cotton fillers to cut out and the copper just braids and flexes so easily.

Even though it's generally more expensive, if you're a live sound engineer or installer, you go for Van Damme because it saves you so much time and effort, as well as no problems with shorts, which equals money.

Thank you for the tip DJ Rann. I checked out the link you provided. I just started using those exact Neutrik RCA connectors on my stuff and on my clients stuff. The only issue I have with them is soldering them to the Canare cable.

Is the cable a twisted pair with a braided shield or a foil?

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Originally posted by djkatmaus Thank you for the tip DJ Rann. I checked out the link you provided. I just started using those exact Neutrik RCA connectors on my stuff and on my clients stuff. The only issue I have with them is soldering them to the Canare cable. Is the cable a twisted pair with a braided shield or a foil?

The phono cables I have at home are this (scroll down to the twin interconnect stuff):

http://www.van-damme.com/products/hifiseries.htm

I also have the Neutrik Gold Plated RCA's which are solid as fuck. If you look at the cable, you'll see it's like a coax with an super flexible outer braided conductor and the a thick, but fine stranded, center conductor. Becuase of this, they are really easy to solder: the center one slots perfectly in to the bucket on the center pin of the RCA and the braid solders on the flat shield. So because of the insulation between the two conductors and the sheer amount of copper, signal transmission is just outstanding. Then on top of that the two cables in the pair are separated by a little rubber track.

My only one criticism of that cable is that because of it being a side by side design (you can see in the pic where the center joining rubber track part has been cut) they don't flex well from left to right but up and down is very flexy.

And yes, they do sell it in bulk.

Have a read on this thread - granted, I don't buy in to the hifi audiofile shit but these guys are going crazy over the VD and prefering them to seriously expensive hifi cables.

http://community.whathifi.com/forum...ShowThread.aspx

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Originally posted by djkatmaus @N3lly, I have six RCA to RCA @ 9 feet already made. They were left from an install I did a few months ago. Technically they're already paid for. I can send you them. 3 are blue and 3 are red with Neutrik RCA connector wired with Canare.

Private message sent mate. You're too kind.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Give them a call and get trade pricing

Cheers for the heads up. I'm assuming they can do custom multicore rca cables for you so? Maybe get them to put some female rca plugs on as well as male ones?

This thread has been uber useful. Thanks a million to all of you.

steve

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Originally posted by n3lly Private message sent mate. You're too kind. Cheers for the heads up. I'm assuming they can do custom multicore rca cables for you so? Maybe get them to put some female rca plugs on as well as male ones? This thread has been uber useful. Thanks a million to all of you. steve

They can do any configuration, with any connector, in any length, any colour with naming, bradys, pliosil tails. Go to the VDC trading website and click on manufacturing to see some of the custom options but remember they can make anything for you.

If you're willing to make your own cables, you could get Cordial's CMK 222. It's a microphone cable and comes in black, blue, yellow, green, mint, red, violet and white. I used some 50 meters of it for my XLR to TRS cables some years back. I ordered it from Thomann. I ordered proper Neutrik connectors too.

http://www.cordial-gmbh.de/catalog2,11,14.html

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Making your own cables might end up costing quite a lot though. If you want to connect every out and in of the Audio 8 DJ someplace, you're gonna need 32 RCA connectors. If you'd get the NEUTRIK NYS 373 from Thomann for example, they'd end up costing you 62,40 € + 0,69 €/m for the cables + shipping. So unless you really have a problem with the multicore cables or have way too much money on your hands, I'd think twice about making your own.

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Originally posted by skip Making your own cables might end up costing quite a lot though. If you want to connect every out and in of the Audio 8 DJ someplace, you're gonna need 32 RCA connectors. If you'd get the NEUTRIK NYS 373 from Thomann for example, they'd end up costing you 62,40 € + 0,69 €/m for the cables + shipping. So unless you really have a problem with the multicore cables or have way too much money on your hands, I'd think twice about making your own.

I've sorted out a way of getting some cables for a great price (pretty much free). Thanks to Katmaus He's being ridiculously cool sending me the above offer he gave me.

I only use 2 Decks Skip, so if I decided to go with my own ables i'd only need 8 separate ones. Or what i'd most likely do is get multicore, and get 4 multicore (2 per multicore).

When i come into some money, I might check out the Van Damm stuff that's been so highly recommended. But being a mature student i've only got a little bit of part time work here and there so saving cash at the moment is key.

As i said before i'll take some pics of the cables in use etc.