Don't Settle for Anything Less! 
by Scott Fitzgerald from Melbourne, FL, August 2007
Music Background:  FOH Engineer, Recording Engineer

The Swizz Army Tester is hands-down the best cable tester around. No sound booth, recording studio, or audio tool box should be without one!

The best thing about this tester is the intermittent checking capability. Plug the questionable cable in, jiggle it around, and the tester will tell you exactly which wires are loose by locking on an LED. The LED display also tells you the exact wiring of the cable, including and shorts, opens, and crossed pins.

Other functions, like sensing phantom power on mic lines and producing test tones (either 440Hz or 1kHz), make ringing out messes of cables a breeze. I use this feature any time I re-patch the stage to make sure that I have the signal paths correct.

This is truly a smart cable tester, and is worth the extra money. Despite the number of features packed into a small box, the Swizz Army tester was incredibly easy to learn. I don't know how I got along without one all these years!

Great functionality, built like tank 
by Anonymous from Boston Area, January 2006

This box will tell you how any three-or-fewer conductor cable is wired. Each end of the cable can have a different kind of plug, e.g. even if you have an XLR to RCA cable, this box will deal with it.

The Swizz Army is built for the road. I had a dropping-on-pavement accident which I'd thought would kill it, but it didn't.

It will also detect phantom power, and will generate two different test tones (440Hz and 1000Hz) at three different fixed volume levels.

You can even test cables for which you can't bring both ends to the same location.

GREAT little box.

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