Musician's Gear Stage Snake 

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

Very good snake for the price! Easy to install and no effect on input sound.

Higly recommended for home studios, rehearsal spaces.

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

First time we used it I thought there was some user error with newbie av helpers. But after I completely set it up correctly I discovered 5-7 channels were bad. We had used it once for 2 hrs and stored in tote by itself. I bought the snake because of the price. I was using it for church band & singers on stage. Would never recommend to anyone.

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As with most gear you get what you pay for, but this included a headache and pain in the butt. I was excited once the package arrived and quickly attached the 16x4 snake to my mackie onyx mixer in the studio. Flipped on the mixer and tested it with my PA system to find the most obnoxious hum came out with no microphones plugged in. Obviously I was disappointed and sent the product back and requested a new one. Then once again excited when it arrived, but only to the same freaking issue. So rather than send back again me and our studio tech opened the connections and box to find out Pin 1 and Pin 3 connections where swapped. Basically the ground connection was wired wrong. This was on all 20 points on the box and 20 points on the cable ends. So after a long time of tedious soldering and correcting a problem that should not have occured in the first place I finally have a working snake. The order was shipped on January 30th and after sending back the first defective snake and then repairing the second defective snake I finally have a working snake as of March 27th.

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

I am very glad with the service I have got from them. No one gives u hard time in case u have a problem. Very accomotative customer service.Unlike other big companies these days.

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

Works well with our sound system

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

The shipping was prompt and the packaging was well designed. Stage box and XLR connectors are clearly marked. I appreciated the color coded strands. I checked all the the connections to make sure they were functional and they were. The XLR's plugged in tightly. Overall, for the money, this 16x4 is an excellent purchase. I anticipate using the snake only on a limited basis. The only criticism I have is of the riveted stage box. It makes it more difficult to take the box apart and maintain. In summary, for light to moderate use, it is a great deal.

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

Out of the carton it is un-usable with my sound gear.
I just received this Musicina's Freind brand 50 ft 8 ch 4 return snake. I produce singer- songwriter coffeehouse shows in a room that seats 60 and wanted a snake for my gear- a Yamaha 8 channel mixer, QSC 1200 watt power amp for mains and subs. I've run this set-up for over five years problem free.

I have been simply using eight 50 ft xlr cables to the stage for vocal mikes, DI, keyboards, etc. As soon as I powered up this puppy I knew there was big problems. The buzz from every channel was crazy loud- some channels crackled terribly when I increased the gain. I treid every channel with a Shure SM 58 to see if it was isolated to one or more channels and found all of them were bad.

There are dimmer switches in the room and I was commiting a sound faux pas- running the power cord parallel to the snake . I moved the power cord to another outlet in another room no where near the snake, and made sure all the lights were off- no change at all. I went back to XLR cables and the sound is now crystal clear noise free and crackle free. I must assume the problem is in the snake. I could accept that some buzz or hum may be attributed to room conditions, but the crackling tells me there are poor connections on the cables, and this thing is brand new. I won't ever use this with my set up . Luckily I set up the night previous to the gig which gave me time to pull the snake out and run new cables to the stage.

I think the product is substandard and will be returning it. Extremely disappointed.
barnd new product obviously not well constructed
would have been good if it worked as expected.

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

It may be the snake for you but it wasn't for me. Not great but not bad.
The 8x4 Stage Snake was not a that bad in terms of the construction.

The inputs were riveted in so that was the deciding factor in returning it. I want something that I can get into "just in case".
It was larger than what I was looking for on my install. The box was twice the size that I wanted and there was a lot of wasted space that could have made it smaller.
Value wise it wasn't bad but the cable restraint on the box was plastic and cheap. It would not hold up to touring.

Returning it made the value not a great deal.

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

If you need a low priced stage snake, give this a go. Again, there are surly higher quality units out there, but for the price, this was just what I was looking for.
The unit has what's needed
I read a lot of reviews saying this was no good, but I took a chance anyway. I either got one of the good ones, or others just had bad luck. The unit worked just fine for me. I didn't have any trouble at all, and I think with some care, it should last a good while. I don't intend to use it too frequently, which is why I didn't really want to spemd 2 or 3 times what this one cost.
Hey, for the price, this was a good deal to me

Comments about Musician's Gear Stage Snake:

I absolutely detest spending money when it is not necessary. In other words, paying for the brand name when you can get the same product from a non-brand name...so, I felt like Musician's Gear would fill the need.
However, in the case of this snake, I spent more money, time and aggravation going with a cheaper product than I would have had I upgraded in quality.

MusiciansFriend is awesome and they credited me for the defective items-professional, customer-service oriented.

My advice is to do as I will do in the future when it comes to cables. Pay for quality and save yourself a bunch of aggravation.
All ins/outs numbered, easy to read. Rigid box, appears it could handle some bumps.
No problem with features
Received it on Thursday and used it Friday night. 2 of 12 channels inoperable. Did not have time to troubleshoot so I used 2 other channels.
Not the quality I would expect and can live with.
I believe now I got less than I paid for. I would expect everything to work properly for at least the first few times of use. I know it is cheaply made, but to expect it to be 83% operational from the start?