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Old 03-24-2007, 04:32 AM
IanMcElroy IanMcElroy is offline
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Default Yay Cables!!

Hi Everyone. First post, long time reader.

Just thought I'd jump in here and talk about some cables. I've been reading up on these things and it seems to make slight differences to your tone. If you really can hear it good on you but it seems to be really about build quality. The better the cable the longer it will last better not meaning cost but the actual cable. The ends and solder that are used are important as well. Again if it's not soldered right it will fall apart and if your end is junk it might not fit into the end and bore out the jack, or fall out all the time. You can end up spending some serious money on these things and I've seen some audio cable now that sells for about $100.00 a foot. I don't think that its worth it. I've been using the George L's for about a year now and I've been trying to break them. I can't. The only thing I don't like about them is that they tend to tangle pretty easy and trip me up when I'm on stage. I made the move over to Radial Mogami instrument cables and they have all the hype of Neutrik ends and all that but they didn't sound all that different. I've used Monster and I had a bit of a tiff with one of their users. I say this about the "bass" cable that they make and mean no harm no foul to anyone or company. I didn't like them. I thought they sucked the mids out of my tone and from that made "false clarity" on the high end. What I mean by that is if you take away a certain frequencies others sound better. Less mid makes more room for high end and makes the highs sound better. There are companies out there like Tara Labs, Van Den Hul, Sommer, and Gepco that all have started making "high end" cable for the modern musician. These are also the same guys that found out you could really make a buck or two selling really expensive cable, to really rich people, with really expensive taste. All and all I think it's just a case of The Emperor's New Clothes and if you can find a good cable that you like you should get it and not care about what everyone else is saying.

But for us, oh oh me me!!!, who like to gawk at really expensive stuff here are some links.

http://www.taralabs.com/home.asp
http://www.sommercable.com/2__default/index.html
http://www.radialeng.com/
http://www.gepco.com/
http://www.vandenhul.com/

and if you really want to read some craziness
http://www.zaolla.com/ SILVER CABLES!!!! WTF Mate?

and if you want to buy this kinda stuff and see what a company who sells these kinds of things say.
http://www.lavacable.com/


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