What Is Your Favorite Guitar Cable?

[droptrd]

I havent tried any of the boutique cables yet but currently use Gepco Xband cable. I like it alot. I built them all with Switchcraft 280s and 226s. I have also used and liked Mogmai and Canare GS6 wire

 

[TeleBlaster]

again - i'm sorry teleblaster - if you thought that i aimed that message at you, personally, that was not my intention.

Not offended, just feels like I'm debating a Flat Earth-er or Gay Lib-er; no amount of truth or logic or science will get you to concede anything, because the real issue is that it is not a debate. It's a confrontation that I didn't know was a war when I walked into it.
It's like using a bucket to fight a 3 alarm fire. Mere words are ineffective against the raging inferno of wrongness in your skull.

It's not my battle, sorry. Have a nice day.

 

[Anonymous]

For live: Solid Cables.
For Home or Recording: Solid Cables and Evidence.

I have of ton of all kinds of cables and you can hear the difference.

 

[D-Rock]

Geeez... Try to explain something nicely, and that's what I get..

what?
i didn't mean to be insulting about it. just discussing.
don't even try to make me feel bad lol

Your first few posts are blatantly insulting. You may want to rethink your debate tactics.

lol

 

[racerevlon]

Once upon a time I read that a guitar cable is nothing more than an antenna for noise--doesn't matter how well the cable is made, quality of parts, etc. It's a big, long antenna and WILL pick up interference. To that end, the author wrote one should always use a wireless to get the best, purest tone from their signal path.

Recently I had the opportunity to review the (at that time) new Line 6 G30 Relay digital wireless. They have built into their digital wireless a function called something along the lines of "cable tone." This is pretty much a high-pass (or low-pass... always get them reversed) filter that puts back in some of the high-frequency roll-off you'd experience with an actual cable. When I first used the digital wireless, I was like "Where did all those highs come from???" Then I realized with the digital wireless there was much less frequency filtering going on than with an actual cable. You can hear the differences in the roll-off between the "pure digital" "five meter" and "nine meter" emulation settings.

My formal Line6/Jemsite.com review can be found here:

http://www.jemsite.com/compare-guitar-p ... m/reviews/

...including plenty of sound clips to compare... 16-17 in all.

To that end, I always use either my Line6 G30 digital wireless, or if that's not available I'll use my old BOSS WS-100 wireless (I have NO idea why they don't make this product any more--a rock-solid wireless with TWO REMOTE LOOPS SWITCHABLE FROM THE REMOTE. No need to be near your pedal board--want to switch in your delay, just reach back to your transmitter and push the button. Want chorus? Push the button--all from the transmitter, two loops wired in series so you can have 1, 2, or 1+2.)

Cheers,

 

[Jimmie]

Electrons follow the easiest path to the source of ground within a circuit, some frequencies prefer to follow the outter surface of the wires within a cable while others travel through the core of each strand of wire contained within the cable. The higher quality "less impurities, air gaps etc, your conductor has, the "better" your cables will have the ability to deliver the various frequencies within your tone to the amp and ultimately, the speaker.

Gold plated connectors may provide you with a longer lasting "connector" by being anodized with gold and being less likely to corrode over time, which would then create a voltage drop (exactly like putting a resistor in your cable. BUT, unless there is a path of gold from one end of the gold plated cable end to the other (Bill Gates Price Range) you're not going to get a better signal path than what the best conductor(s) within the cable has to offer. Gold of course is still the best conductor of electricity...short of super conductors.

Jimmie

 

[slaktarn]

Electrons follow the easiest path to the source of ground within a circuit, some frequencies prefer to follow the outter surface of the wires within a cable while others travel through the core of each strand of wire contained within the cable. The higher quality "less impurities, air gaps etc, your conductor has, the "better" your cables will have the ability to deliver the various frequencies within your tone to the amp and ultimately, the speaker.

Gold plated connectors may provide you with a longer lasting "connector" by being anodized with gold and being less likely to corrode over time, which would then create a voltage drop (exactly like putting a resistor in your cable. BUT, unless there is a path of gold from one end of the gold plated cable end to the other (Bill Gates Price Range) you're not going to get a better signal path than what the best conductor(s) within the cable has to offer. Gold of course is still the best conductor of electricity...short of super conductors.

Jimmie

I dont think gold is the best conductor, but it is a good conductor and has very good non-corrosive properties.

 

[slaktarn]

Has anyone experience with cables that have shields that are only connected at one end of the cable? I think planet waves had a line of such cables which you had to connect in the right direction, one in- connector and one out- connector.

 

[Jimmie]

Electrons follow the easiest path to the source of ground within a circuit, some frequencies prefer to follow the outter surface of the wires within a cable while others travel through the core of each strand of wire contained within the cable. The higher quality "less impurities, air gaps etc, your conductor has, the "better" your cables will have the ability to deliver the various frequencies within your tone to the amp and ultimately, the speaker.

Gold plated connectors may provide you with a longer lasting "connector" by being anodized with gold and being less likely to corrode over time, which would then create a voltage drop (exactly like putting a resistor in your cable. BUT, unless there is a path of gold from one end of the gold plated cable end to the other (Bill Gates Price Range) you're not going to get a better signal path than what the best conductor(s) within the cable has to offer. Gold of course is still the best conductor of electricity...short of super conductors.

Jimmie

I dont think gold is the best conductor, but it is a good conductor and has very good non-corrosive properties.

Short of a super conductor, whats proven to be a better conductor of electrons than gold? If I had my wish list of making a cable it would be woven of pure silver, copper and gold for the instrument and oxygen free copper between amp and speaker (primarily for carbon loss)

 

[slaktarn]

Electrons follow the easiest path to the source of ground within a circuit, some frequencies prefer to follow the outter surface of the wires within a cable while others travel through the core of each strand of wire contained within the cable. The higher quality "less impurities, air gaps etc, your conductor has, the "better" your cables will have the ability to deliver the various frequencies within your tone to the amp and ultimately, the speaker.

Gold plated connectors may provide you with a longer lasting "connector" by being anodized with gold and being less likely to corrode over time, which would then create a voltage drop (exactly like putting a resistor in your cable. BUT, unless there is a path of gold from one end of the gold plated cable end to the other (Bill Gates Price Range) you're not going to get a better signal path than what the best conductor(s) within the cable has to offer. Gold of course is still the best conductor of electricity...short of super conductors.

Jimmie

I dont think gold is the best conductor, but it is a good conductor and has very good non-corrosive properties.

Short of a super conductor, whats proven to be a better conductor of electrons than gold? If I had my wish list of making a cable it would be woven of pure silver, copper and gold for the instrument and oxygen free copper between amp and speaker (primarily for carbon loss)

I think both silver and copper are better conductors than gold. Gold is used because it doesnt corrode like silver or copper.

Here is a list of conductivity for some materials, the higher the conductivity (Siemens per meter) the better the material is for conducting electricity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conductivity#Some_electrical_conductivities

 

[Jimmie]

Electrons follow the easiest path to the source of ground within a circuit, some frequencies prefer to follow the outter surface of the wires within a cable while others travel through the core of each strand of wire contained within the cable. The higher quality "less impurities, air gaps etc, your conductor has, the "better" your cables will have the ability to deliver the various frequencies within your tone to the amp and ultimately, the speaker.

Gold plated connectors may provide you with a longer lasting "connector" by being anodized with gold and being less likely to corrode over time, which would then create a voltage drop (exactly like putting a resistor in your cable. BUT, unless there is a path of gold from one end of the gold plated cable end to the other (Bill Gates Price Range) you're not going to get a better signal path than what the best conductor(s) within the cable has to offer. Gold of course is still the best conductor of electricity...short of super conductors.

Jimmie

I dont think gold is the best conductor, but it is a good conductor and has very good non-corrosive properties.

Short of a super conductor, whats proven to be a better conductor of electrons than gold? If I had my wish list of making a cable it would be woven of pure silver, copper and gold for the instrument and oxygen free copper between amp and speaker (primarily for carbon loss)

I think both silver and copper are better conductors than gold. Gold is used because it doesnt corrode like silver or copper.

Here is a list of conductivity for some materials, the higher the conductivity (Siemens per meter) the better the material is for conducting electricity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conductivity#Some_electrical_conductivities

Just so you know the basis behind my statements...
http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=15614

 

[slaktarn]

Just so you know the basis behind my statements...
http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=15614

OK.

It seems like that report shows IC-chip manufacturers think gold bonding wires connecting from the substrate to the packaging pins are more reliable than copper bonding wires, but I don't think that directly applies to gold being a better conductor.

 

[Jimmie]

Just so you know the basis behind my statements...
http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=15614

OK.

It seems like that report shows IC-chip manufacturers think gold bonding wires connecting from the substrate to the packaging pins are more reliable than copper bonding wires, but I don't think that directly applies to gold being a better conductor.

Its the field I made a profession in for a significant portion of my life. But thats ok, I chimed in not to do battle of the wits, but rather to share from soe of the experiences in my life.