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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:09 pm
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today i've just bought a dimarzio cable. The salesman told that its a good cable. I'm so sick if bad cables which you can just use a month! So you know anything about these cables? Hope if will survive at least a year


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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:55 pm
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Im into my second and third years with my dimarzio planet waves cables. Ive a 10m standard cable and a 3m cable with the on/off switch on the jack. The switch one developed its first break about a month ago, after 3 years hard labour. Fixing it couldnt of been simpler though. I undid a screw on the plug, pulled the cable out of the plug, trimmed 4inches off the cable. Pushed the cable back into the jackplug, tightened the screw, and its been fine ever since. So simple and quick i could of done it onstage between songs with non of the audience sussing there was a problem.

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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:21 pm
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Is 3 meter cable is short for the stage?


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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:13 pm
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3 meters of cable is just over 9 feet long, ( 39 inches to a meter ). So that should be enough cable unless your all over the stage. I would keep the length of a cable no more than 10 feet so your signal does not weaken. I have a DiMarzio cable I recently bought, I had some static in the other cable but that was eliminated after getting this one. If you don`t abuse the cable it should last, but then again that goes for anything you own.

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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:19 pm
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I have heard nothing but good things about DiMarzio cables. In fact, I think they are the only cable that survived a durability test that one of the guitar mags subjected cables to by dropping a drum cymbal on a cymbal stand on a guitar cord, as every other cable but DiMarzio was severed and unuseable afterwards. As far as the cables you get not lasting long, are you buying cheap cables? There is also a right way and a wrong way to coil cables...The wrong way, but the most common way people tend to coil their cables after use is gripping it with one hand and wrapping it around your elbow and back to your hand. This however can damage cables quickly. Every cable tends to have a natural coil to it. Its hard to explain, but the correct way to coil cables is not with your elbow, its all in the wrist...

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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:29 pm
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3m is ample into a pedal at your feet. The 10m is to go from the pedalboard to the amp.

Yes it loses signal, but who cares when your pumping eq pedals through the leads.

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I use Monster cables......I've had them for years and they're still going strong. Kinda like the Ever Ready bunny.

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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:02 am
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I wish I knew which brand of cables I use it has been that long since I purchaced. Put it like this, my 9 foot cable is older than my son and he is 17 years old. I know I bought it in the late eighties sometime. The only cables I have had to change out since I started playing is my short pedal cables.

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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:05 pm
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Syeklops wrote:
I use Monster cables......I've had them for years and they're still going strong. Kinda like the Ever Ready bunny.


For how much they cost, they better be going years after purchasing them... :lol:

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:38 pm
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I've never tried those cables but I have Evidence cables and they are astounding, I never realised what good cables can do to your sound


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