Swieler XLR Microphone Cable 3m Balanced OFC

Swieler XLR Microphone Cable 3m

If you only buy one length, buy this one. Three metres has become the default microphone lead almost everywhere, and the reason is geometric rather than arbitrary. A vocal microphone sits about a metre and a half above the floor, the stage box or sub-snake usually lands within a metre or two of the performer, and the cable has to travel down the stand, along the base and across to the input. Three metres covers that with a little dressed slack and almost never leaves a coil on the floor.

The same arithmetic holds in a home studio: microphone on a stand, interface on the desk, cable routed behind the monitors rather than across the work surface. It holds for a small stage where the mixer sits at the edge of the riser, for a rehearsal room where everyone plugs into a shared multicore, and for a lectern feeding a nearby wall plate. This is the length that gets replaced most often for the same reason it gets used most often.

Why this is the length to stock deep

Working engineers rarely own a single 3m cable. They own a bundle, because the length is interchangeable across every input on a small system: eight vocal microphones, a set of overheads, a DI line, a spare. Buying a matched set means every lead in the bag terminates the same way, coils the same way and behaves the same way, which turns fault-finding into a process of elimination rather than guesswork.

Construction is consistent across the Swieler XLR range. The cable carries a balanced pair of oxygen-free copper conductors beneath full spiral shielding, terminated with 3-pin XLR male and female connectors in metal housings. The jacket is flexible black PVC, chosen so the cable lies flat when dressed down a stand instead of springing back into the shape it was last coiled in.

Key features

• Balanced 3-pin XLR, male to female
• Oxygen-free copper (OFC) conductors
• Full spiral shielding
• Metal connector housings
• Flexible PVC jacket, black
• 3 metres — the standard vocal-mic-to-stage-box length

Technical specifications

Our deepest-stocked XLR length, warehoused in Australia by MSM AV.