Pooh Bear wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

Mark wrote:
Do stage snakes with dedicated returns typically bundle the return
cables seperatly from the mic cables to avoid the crosstalk /feedback
problem?

It's not a problem. Only time it's an issue is if you're running a
"powered snake" where speaker-level signals are bundled in the cable.
Don't do that.

If you use gender benders and just select some mic snake paths to use
as line level returns and they are all bundled together, is this
crosstalk/feedback a real problem in practice.....how do you avoid it
or test for it other than watching your amps go up in smoke....

It's fine. Don't worry. That's why cables have shields and why we
run balanced.

Going back ohhhh 33 yrs I found it wasn't any trouble unbalanced either.

Individually screened signals are *very* important though !

Graham

thank you all for the replies...
I'll stop worrying
Mark