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Mic Cables are the bane of my existance!! I have a mic cable go out on me about once a month. I always have backups, so I'm set there. All of the brands I have been trying have "Lifetime guarantees" but it is the biggest pain in the (@$%&#!) to get these companies to replace them.

Can anyone recommend a 20 ft. mic cable that is rugged enough to last years!!

I live right by a huge Sam Ash retail store, and have tried the following brands without success:

Stageworks
Samson
Groove Plugs
Horizon

I would gladly pony up the $50 each for Monster Cables if I knew they would last over a year!!

The mic end is usually the one that is stressed and can be repaired by cutting about 2" below the mic. Then unsolder the original cable and resolder the new end. Leave slack in the small wires so to put the stress on the shield The old fashioned woven shield will take a lot of pulling and stepping on the mic cable. I usually buy  500 ft. spools (Audible Purity) and build various lengths (10-100 ft.) of mic cables and  speaker cables. Prob got 600 feet of cable we haul around.

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Some of the music stores will honor the lifetime warranty cords & simply exchange them - keep reciept & packaging.  The Guitar Center I shop at does this & they do the exchange with the manufacturer.

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Agree - ask when you shop and keep receipts.  Having a cord go out monthly  though sounds a bit odd to me.  How are your mics doing?  After my show last Saturday, I stopped by another and watch complete chaos with drunken singers wrapping cords around them and about pulling the mixer off the table.  Those cords were going through a lot.  I thought maybe there was a full moon as well.

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Yeah, I work in a bar of 75-100 drunken 23 year olds, all of whom think they are David Lee Roth (they must not know he's gay) and sling my mics all over the place. I constantly play mommy and stop them, but that doesn't mean someone 5 songs down the road doesn't do the same thing. The good thing is that my mics are in great shape after a year of abuse, but unfotunately, the internal wiring of the mic cables seems to loosen.

I think I will just try to fix them, dunno why I didn't think of that before!!

I no longer use mic cable except to connect my recievers to my mixer, but I agree I buy all my cables at guitar center live wire has a lifetime warrenty, anytime one breaks they will replace it right at the store.

We used to get ours with lifetime warranty but they stopped that....  We've had great luck with Excel.

Susie

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If you are good with a soldering iron and have the free time, buy you cable in bulk and make your own connections using best quality plugs/jacks.....Then be sure to use several layers of colored shrink wrap that extends onto the connector....The colored shrink wrap will serve as a strain relief and also help you quicly identify which mic to mute or attenuate when they decide to scream.

Fersure consider a compressor on each mic channel to auto attenuate the screamers and mic droppers/thumpers.

I know one guy who taped his mics to the stands....It worked for him....He was snaked to front of house so he couldn't react fast enuff and snatch his mics out of their drunken hands.

Try inexpensive wireless mics like the Audia Technica line.  Hard to sling around a wireless.

I've been using live wire mic cables with no problems and great sound...  They too have the lifetime guarantee and Guitar Center will swap these out for new ones if a problem should arise.  I also use Live Wire for my Speaker cables with the same guarantee.

my two nickels worth