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You know how they say the best things in life are free? Well, sometimes the best technologies are the simplest, at least in terms of how easy they are the pick up and use. The Soundtech Lightsnake USB Instrument Cable falls into that category. It's essentially a sound card on a cable with an input designed to connect to an instrument that uses a 1/4" jack (typically a guitar or bass, though other instrucments can have 1/4" jacks). Here's how easy the Lightsnake USB Instrument Cable was to use: I took it out of the plastic blister pack (which took some careful cutting), unwrapped it, plugged it into the front USB port on my computer, watched it light up and waited a few seconds as Vista installed the drivers for it, went into the Vista sound panel and selected it as the recording source, then I fired up the Vista sound recorder and recorded this quick test. The hardest part of that whole process was getting the package open. Read more...