Wired for Sound
What's more important -- and overlooked -- than the wire and cable that provides the infrastructure of our broadcast facilities? Steve Lampen is Multimedia Technology Manager at Belden.
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Working With Class 1 Speaker Cable
by Steve Lampen, 04.29.2010
Have you looked at your cable? Is it the appropriate class? More...
Steve Lampen, Guilty as Charged
by Steve Lampen, 09.14.2009
When it comes to grounding, you don't wanna be in the loop More...
So, How Much Air Would You Like?
by Steve Lampen, 03.20.2009
The highest quality cable manufacturers sell you air. Why? It all comes down to speed. More...
The Truth About Guitar Cable
by Steve Lampen, 01.21.2009
In No Other Equipment Is the Effect of the Cable as Pronounced as It Is on a Guitar More...
Touch a Supernova
by Steve Lampen, 12.12.2008
Thanks to a Star That Lived and Died Violently Billions of Years Ago, You Can Now Hook Up Your Facility More...
Caveat Emptor Is Always Good Advice
by Steve Lampen, 09.24.2008
There are really two kinds of audio and video cable at these shows. One is the cable, made usually in Asia, that probably works OK. It passes continuity, and for audio, that's about it. But then we have the second kind of cable. More...
You and the Search for ‘E’
by Steve Lampen, 09.01.2008
So how can you tell if a particular manufacturer is a hole-in-the-wall or a serious player? More...
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On the Street Where You Live
by Steve Lampen, 03.26.2008
I have a great idea. And this idea, as most great ideas, comes from frustration. More...
I’m the Man Who Found the Lost Cord
by Steve Lampen, 09.26.2007
Of course, it should be the lost “chord” but I wrote the lost “cord,” as we’ve been talking about power cords. We’ve talked about gage size, current draw, even the melting temperature of the jacket. More...
Power Cords ... With a Guitar
by Steve Lampen, 08.15.2007
Power cords are ubiquitous, so even if a guitar doesn’t don’t have one, a guitar amp certainly does. More...
Heyyyy, More Power to Ya!
by Steve Lampen, 07.18.2007
Of course, I won’t mention that 99.99 percent of the cable before that power cord, the stuff between your wall and the power plant, is simple solid copper wire. No, no, that last three feet makes such a difference! More...
Get to Know Coax Snake Cable
by Steve Lampen, 03.01.2007
You say you never heard of coax snake? Yes you have. You might even be using some on a fancy computer monitor. More...
How to Gauge a Snake
by Steve Lampen, 02.14.2007
When selecting analog snake cable, you usually have three gauge sizes from which to choose. More...
Spills and Chills, On the Air
by Steve Lampen, 09.13.2006
In an earlier column on the history of wire, I mentioned ancient batteries that used the first wire to conduct electricity. Inside these batteries, the liquid that made them run probably was grape juice. More...