Musician's Gear Stage Snake  

I currently using it for my home studio and it's great.  Lots of channels and good quality.  Highly recommend it for that type of application.

Good quality, not meant for heavy usage.

Does not get any better than this for the price.

A good overall snake, with plenty of channels and good workmanship.  Excellent for studio or church applications where it will be placed and not moved around.

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.

It may be the snake for you but it wasn't for me. Not great but not bad.

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

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.

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?

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.

I bought one of these Snakes a couple of years back. It was installed in a fixed venue. My first readings of reviews talked of the quality of the snake & the biggest problem was the connectors in the box end were always coming loose. I took a chance, got the snake, took the box apart, tightened all screws, then super glued threads. With all of this maintenance the screws still came loose allowing plug ends to fall into the box. I have basically left all cables attached to box until they go bad then replace them. If you can do this the price is not bad, but if you are a tear down P.A. company of any sort, I would recommend buying a Whirlwind Brand or comparable!!!!! I do still use snake but have intermittent problems from day to day. You will also find these problems w/musicians friend cables. Bought 10 & in 1 year only 2 left working.