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ceharden 
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 Topic: 8 Way stage (drop) boxPosted: 08 October 2015 at 12:47am |
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I'm feeling a bit lazy, I could make some but lets see if anyone has anything I can use as a starting point!
What I'm looking for is some well-made boxes with 8-12 female XLR's on, has to be Neutrik ideally, somewhere around 10m of cable to 8-12 male XLR's. I used to have some but they were made of really good quality but completely impossible to coil cable, so they've ended up in an install. I'm now missing them when I'm out doing my live band gigs! Half finished projects would be fine, just looking to save some time/money compared with starting from scratch myself. |
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Posted: 08 October 2015 at 10:08am |
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I may have just the thing.
Will measure for length and send you a photo tonight. please pm your email for photos. Cheers Matt |
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Matt at ukamp dot co dot uk
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Posted: 08 October 2015 at 6:59pm |
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Thanks Matt, PM sent
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Posted: 08 October 2015 at 10:58pm |
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if not a few of these may help...
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Posted: 08 October 2015 at 11:16pm |
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I did see you'd listed those 6 way ones, I might be tempted if they're cheaper off Ebay. Are the XLR's and cable any good? There's a massive variation in knock-off Neutrik plugs from fairly usable to complete sh1te.
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Posted: 08 October 2015 at 11:25pm |
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The cable is nice, like belden nice, I would sleeve out the XLR tail end for my use, the connectors are knock-off but the males are fine (I have used literally a couple of Thousand of them, Gubbah on here has a load he gigs) the non-latching plastic box end is deliberate, remote boxes get trodden on and these take it well...
Yes they drop a bit if you loose the ebay part, but not massively as the bits aren't that cheap (like £20) and if you want the tails sleeved and labelled you will still end up at £30 (ish) based on costs plus a 4 pack! let me know  S |
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Posted: 09 October 2015 at 12:09am |
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I'll wait and see what Matt has. Sleeving them isn't an issue, got reels of Pliosil and glue lined heatshrink. How many of them have you got?
I've got a 16 Way Kelsey box and some chunky 17 pair cable which has been waiting for me to make up for a couple of years but that's a bit overkill for gigs where I sometimes only use 8 channels in total!
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Posted: 09 October 2015 at 12:22am |
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I have like 80m of cable left and 20 6way lasercut plates, the whole thing is a bit of a thorn in my side, the laser cutting and powdercoating alone was £180+vat...
I use MK metal back boxes (the gridswitch range) sprayed black with a decent gland, but you could easy get some Canford FSM-8 and CPC (penn I think) 8 way plates and do 8 way ones, if you look I cut the plates for landscape so in portrait (nice as a drop box) I use the plate upside down and the connect are a bit pissed, but kinda arty!!!!!! |
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Posted: 09 October 2015 at 12:34am |
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Let me have a think, I might just take some of the parts off you and make a couple up myself now I know the situation.
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Posted: 09 October 2015 at 12:43am |
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Chris if you ever get rid of that Kelsey box give me a shout. Ive got a collection of Kelsey stage boxes building up. Ive got a 12 and an 8. A 16 too would be lovely.
Yep those knock of connectors are fine! I bought a massive amount of old style neutriks and a couple 100M reels of VDC on the cheap so I sold all my old stock of mic cables that were mostly unbranded cable and those connectors - never had reason to doubt any when I had them. In fact some of the sold XLRs went into the venue I work and sit aside new neutrik... I haven't had any fail.
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Posted: 09 October 2015 at 1:02am |
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