Which cable do you trust to run your rigs?

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Music&Chaos said:
CA-0678 for the instrument cable with switchcraft plugs.

Solder.

It's worth it.

CA-0446 with SP400 plugs.

Here are the parts I ordered:
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I'm trying to find something solderable that's smaller than the Sqaureplug. I really like the Ernie Ball and EBS style flat things, but I don't think you can take those connectors apart.

I've tried some like these, but they're almost as big as the squareplug
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pipelineaudio said:
I'm trying to find something solderable that's smaller than the Sqaureplug. I really like the Ernie Ball and EBS style flat things, but I don't think you can take those connectors apart.

I've tried some like these, but they're almost as big as the squareplug
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Those are larger than my sp400. My buddy has some of those same ones I could have sworn. I had the ernie ball flat patches and swapped them directly with my new cables with no issues with fit.

I have quite a few used EB flat patch cables I'd let go for really cheap since I replaced them all and they are just sitting here.
 
pipelineaudio said:
The mogami noise antenna style cable got -30 in the noise test, which was significantly better than a lot of the noise antenna cables tested, such as Fender's -6, HOSA at -12 and -6, or the Lava Blue Demon, but of course worse than the best non-noise antenna cables like the Lava coil at -49

I bet if you ran the test with line level high impedance inputs you'd see the results flip here. Don't run the wrong type of cable for the application.

This test mostly just showed exactly what you'd expect, noise antenna cables are noisy, quiet cables are quiet. You could look at the cable itself and accurately predict just by jacket size which side of the noise curve these would end up on
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Right on but again under the same conditions as the others...... Mogami ranked in the bottom 10 of not just a couple cables but 79 different cables and performed worse than Ernie Ball, MXR, Sommer, Mooer cables etc etc.......


Its just a waste of money in todays day and age given the opportunity cost of higher quality cables in the market that cost the same or less and perform much much better.
 
Music&Chaos said:
Those are larger than my sp400. My buddy has some of those same ones I could have sworn. I had the ernie ball flat patches and swapped them directly with my new cables with no issues with fit.

I have quite a few used EB flat patch cables I'd let go for really cheap since I replaced them all and they are just sitting here.
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Also SP400 for the win..... those things are great ^_^
 
I have been down the cable rabbit hole for many decades and now simply use the D'addario PW-GRA cables and/or the MXR Pro Series cables. Both are supple, well built and low capacitance and most importantly, will not break the bank.
 
If your looking for cables on the cheap but good quality check out MXR...... their Pro Series is a good starting point and their patches are pretty good.


If you got more money and want American but at a great value that dont break the bank BTPA is your best bet.... regular cable or patch...... made in the USA too 🇺🇸



If your looking at foreign check out Sommer LLX with HiCon plugs...... them guitar cables from Germany are great 👍




If your looking for an all around...... nothing special..... but special and solid cable IMO Divine noise ain't bad either and sort of has a that "classic" sound for lack of a better term...... made in America too 🇺🇸




Cant go wrong with whatever you get nowadays at so many price points IMO and a lot of quality stuff and cables being made.



Ime whatever the case may be a quality cable goes a long way in the end sound and quality of ones rig and tone....... and sometimes its underplayed or overlooked but it makes a lot of sense once you consider that is where the signal travels through inherently.
 
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