Clearance Livewire Advantage 16-Channel/4-Return Stage Snake 100 ft.

Good product

Great piece of equipment

Bought this snake to replace our old one that was 20 yrs old. Was starting to have hissing and channel dropouts, replaced it with this snake, wow this snake is crystal clear. not a bit of noise, it fixed all of our hissing and dropouts. This is a really nice one. worth buying.

I had been looking for a recording snake to put in my home studio. I had some concerns that there would be extra sounds as I am still a firm believer that the more you plug things into other things before it gets to the main recording source you are raising the possibility percentages of error higher than if you just ran everything direct. Of course, running things direct gets messy. And being a part of this ridiculous generation where everyone has the need to spend money on things that make life easier a recording snake that would work in the studio was saught after. Okay, so I looked and looked, and being a musician I am very partial to Horizon snakes since the venue I worked at going through college used them and they were very quiet. Anyway, the Horizons aren't in my current budget. Another factor that came into play was that I didn't need 100' of cable since I only have a home studio and this isn't a club. The LiveWire comes with 50' of very well protected cable that doesn't make noise. The LiveWire may work for live applications but I have to tell you that I think it is a studio engineers dream come true. The cable is short, its quiet, and if you are running into a Mackie 1604 VLZ Pro like I am the color coated and (so far) reliable channels has given me a much quicker solution to checking for problems. Actually the amount of problems have gone down markedly and I think that it gets it moneys worth just from that. But if you are looking for a good studio snake, or possibly a quality stage snake for a smaller venue (I still am not sure how well it would take a beating like getting kicked, stepped on, or having things spilled on it). The Horizon is the top of the line, but this is a perfect fit for people who are going to use it for a home studio or smaller application.

Just got this as a replacement for a ProCo Stagemaster, and it was a mistake. The shielding on the fan-ou is so thin that it literally tore in a couple of places when I was snipping the zip-ties off after unboxing it. The ProCo has massive insulation and what seems to be sturdier construction. For the same price, get the ProCo instead.