Production sound repair and cables

Send it to the bench. Get it back tested, labeled, and documented.

Wireless packs, mixers, mics, DI boxes, snakes, cables. For the engineer with a show Friday and a dead channel today.

No paid repair work starts before you approve the estimate. Walk-ins by appointment. Purchase orders welcome.

The ProductionBench cable bench: pegboard of tools, labeled connector bins, XLR coils on the mat
The four steps

Four steps. Always four.

Start a Repair

Pick the item, describe the problem, add photos or a recording. About two minutes on a phone.

Get It to Us

Ship it, request a Box Kit, schedule a pickup, or bring it in by appointment.

Review + Approve

Read the Bench Report, hear the evidence, then approve, approve with a PO, decline, or ask.

Repair + Return

Tested, labeled, shipped or held at will-call, with the report for your records.

Receiving, diagnosis, parts, manufacturer service when it is needed, QA, and packing happen inside these steps. You see a plain-language update, never a status code.

One ticket, start to finish

We fix what a bench can fix. For the rest, we deal with the manufacturer so you don’t have to.

Cables, connectors, jacks, switches, battery doors, cold joints, cleaning, re-terminations: that is our bench. When a repair needs the manufacturer or their service center (board swaps, firmware-locked parts, warranty work), we pack it, send it on your behalf, chase it, test it when it comes back, and return it to you. Same ticket number, same contact, one invoice.

We tell you which path it is on the Bench Report, before you approve anything. Manufacturer service time and cost are passed through and shown as their own line.

Our benchDiagnosis, cable and connector work, jacks and switches, cleaning, battery doors, test and label.
Sent on for youManufacturer or service-center work. We ship, track, and test on return. You see “With the manufacturer” on your ticket, not a tracking number to babysit.
ReferredMains power, high-power amps, anything we won’t touch safely. We say so at intake and point you to who will.
What we do

Equipment repair and diagnostics

Evaluation, written estimate, approved work, bench testing, documented return.

Bench Repair

Cables and connectivity

Re-termination and standard replacements, every one tested and labeled. Built-to-order lengths and connectors.

Cable Bench

Repair documentation

A Bench Report for every repair: what we found, what we did, the test result, audio where it helps.

Bench Report

Bench prices

Service Terms
ServicePrice
Bench labor$20.00 per 15 minutes ($80.00/hour)
Minimum bench charge$20.00
Simple re-termination$20.00
Standard cable repair$27.00
Complex cable repair$40.00
Boom Pole - Complete Re-Threading$80.00
Box Kit handling$15.00

No charge when we find no fault. Nothing billable starts until you approve the written estimate. Parts and shipping are listed on your estimate.

Bench Report · samplePB-REP-000182
Shure ULXD1 bodypack · SN ULXD1-4418-22AREADY

What we found: TA4F input jack cracked at both solder joints. Intermittent on the wiggle test.

What we did: Replaced the jack, reflowed the board edge, 20-minute motion test with a known-good lav.

00:14 · before / after
Intake photos · 4Bench photos · 3Test reading · 0.4 Ω shield

You can hear the fix before you pay for it.

Every Bench Report carries the evidence: intake photos, our findings, a recording from our bench when the problem is something you'd hear, and the test result. You approve from your phone. No billable work until you do.

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Cable Bench

Browse the store

XLR microphone cable

Male to female · 25 ft · black

Price on requestAsk for a price

Neutrik NC3MXX

Male XLR connector

Price on requestAsk for a price
Build to order

Custom-length XLR

Pick connectors, length, color

Price on requestBuild

Cable tester

XLR, TRS, RCA, SpeakON

Price on requestAsk for a price

Who we work with

K-12 schools

Theater, band, broadcast. POs and vendor setup handled once.

Colleges

Equipment rooms, many locations, approvers, net terms.

Production companies

Show-date reality. Card on file, project tracking.

Churches

Volunteer-friendly intake. Tax-exempt setup.

Community theater, rental house, podcast studio, or something else? We work with you too.

Patch, the ProductionBench guide
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