Which cable do you trust to run your rigs?

[pipelineaudio]

Is there an EBS jack that you can open up?

 

[The~Kid]

Did the periodic table of the elements or ohm's law change in the last 30 years or something?

To me the big deal today are the jackets. They can make really supple, yet coilable and durable cables now that aren't just a long line of unrollable kinks

Is there any place for solderable really small flat jacks like on the Ernie Ball patch cables, but that you can take apart if need be?

I love this style but I want to make my own lengths. The Squareplug brand is a lot wider, so won't fit as easily as these types do

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I love my EBS Gold cables. I use them almost exclusively (with a few Mogami/Rean, Rattlesnake, etc) on all of my boards.

I bought a pair of Monster Performer 500 cables for my Strat, back in 1996 (for the front and back end of my rig, and used them for years, on countless gigs, with no issues. They always delivered. They look somewhat tarnished, but still do the job.

Monster made these insert cables, and I had four 1-meter (used on my old 1604 VLZ analog mixer effects sends/returns), and 4 4-meter (some of which were used to run my stereo effects from the amp to the board and back. Also, never a problem, except for one of the 1-meter return cables that had a faulty connection at the plug. I walked into Guitar Center, and they swapped it out with a new one, no questions asked. Had to fill out a brief card, but that was painless.

All of these cables still work flawlessly. They must be doing something right.

I used many different brands of microphone cables, but I came to really love Canare Star Quad cable, using Neutrik connectors. They came in multiple colors and were extremely flexible, reliable, and quiet. Again - they worked beautifully, day in and year out.

But what I probably used the most were Spectraflex cables (Original, Vintage, and Fatso Flex Series), and those, to me, have been flawless. Never a failure. Well....I did have a vintage series connector (which I think was was brass...?) go microphonic on me, and I contacted Spectralfex and they quickly replaced it with another one, free of charge.

I kind of amassed a large selection of these cables since, when I wasn't gigging, I used to do sound jobs for small bands on some evenings and weekends.

The color-coded jackets really made it easy to trace down a cable - aside from just looking cool LOL.

I've had many of these since the mid-90s. They just work, and they sound great!

These little 10-foot cables were just purchased from Spectraflex. I see they're still using G&H plugs on these ones. I love those plugs. Rock solid construction, and these cables come in an almost limitless choice of color and jacket pattern. It's mind-boggling.

They're not cheap, but you can expect them to sound great and last a lifetime. Spectraflex customer service is stellar.

I use the EBS cables on my pedalboard.

Over the last couple years I’ve slowly replaced everything in my studio (a shitload of cables) with cables from Castline.

https://castlineusa.com/index.php/instrument-cables

It’s a little shop in Ohio that makes cables using Mogami wire. They offer Silver (Mogami 2582 wire) and Gold (Mogami 2524 wire) in just about any length and connector you need. It’s a fraction of the price of Mogami.

EBS tested pretty poorly too and just as bad or worse than Mogami cables...... and again other cables that cost as much or less perform better as well.

 

[pipelineaudio]

What’s that test from? Looks interesting

 

[BDC]

I have 3 nice low capacitance cables with fancy jacks (Some Neutric) that I don't use much... Good stuff If your worried about a very tiny bit of signal loss..
A bit of loss of highs or 1/1000 loss in gain....
What I really like is Canare GS6 or Mogami 2524 with Switchcraft Jacks.. Make em' myself.....Brick Shithouse solid...Never fail.....
I have 20' of the skinny Mogomi 2319 for pedal interconnects but haven't made any.... Mostly using the D'Addario ones you get free with other purchases. or 3 for 12 bucks. That and Canare GS6 I made myself...

 

[The~Kid]

What’s that test from? Looks interesting

Yeah pretty good stuff and a lot of the cables that do much better than Mogami, EBS or others cost the same or less....... go figure...... people have been buying garbage/trash like Mogami/EBS for decades upon decades now thanks to marketing or the fact that they simply just don't know any better