ALVA
AUDIOWARE & CABLEWARE

ALVA Professional Cable & Audio Products

We ‘re pleased to introduce the ALVA range – a collection of durable audio products built to the highest standards.

Forming a perfect complement to the products from our partners from RME, there’s an extensive selection of professional cables and a range of other items designed to make studio or on-stage life easier.

Naturally these products aren’t just limited to use with RME devices. There’s much more on offer, for example reasonably priced, ready-made pro audio cables which, given the required specifications, can often be hard to find.

An audio multicore cable (often colloquially referred to in the US and Canada as a snake cable or just a snake) is a thick cable which contains from four to 64 individual audio cables inside a common, sturdy outer jacket. Audio multicore cables are widely used whenever multiple audio signals, for example from a number of microphones, need to be conveyed between common locations. Typical professional audio applications include audio recording, sound reinforcement, PA systems and broadcasting. The “snake” is typically used to make it easier to route many signals from the microphones or other input transducers, to the audio console or sound equipment.

Without a snake, a rock band performing onstage, for example, would have to have 20 or more individual mic cables running from the stage to the mixing console, which is typically located at the rear of a venue. It would be easy for the cables to become tangled, and it would be very hard for the audio engineers connecting the mic cables to the mixing board to determine which cable is for which mic (or other input).

Detailed technical information on the packaging reduces your chances of arriving at the studio, stage, or installation with the wrong cable.

More innovative ALVA brand products will be available in the future, ranging from elaborate accessories to those simple “must haves” that prove so invaluable!