Do Recording Studios Use Silver Cables

Correction: The Wall, not DSotM which was recorded @ EMI Studios, now called Abbey Road.

Recording studios are not audiophile dens. They are a production facility; their widgets are recordings. High quality, completely reliable and interchangeable are the rule for their cabling. There is a studio here in Nashville being parted out. The are selling literally miles of cable: Mogami, Canare, Yaleflex, Gepco & Belden. Studios do not use simple interconnects with XLRs or RCAs; they use massive bundles with XLRs and multipin connections.

I’m still stuck on the idea of “silver cables”. I don’t think silver cables are the “best” that would be too much!  A lot of high end cable use silver as ell as copper and gold as a blend to tame the silver, ie nordost, siltech, and analysis plus to name a few. 

Recording studios are not audiophile dens.

Engineers are not fools.

Studios do not use simple interconnects with XLRs or RCAs; they use massive bundles with XLRs and multipin connections.

Hogwash. Most had walls of individual cables. Snakes are used on stage for safety, but I never worked a session anywhere with a snake box on the floor. Typically for a large session, cables would run to a wall jack panel which could be wired with multi-conductor or individual cables.

For vocals and overdubs, often we would run a single cable under the doors. Some studios had a few cables in soundproof pass throughs to connect directly from the mic to the preamp.