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Post subject: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:08 am
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Hey, Forum;

I need to start replacing my guitar cables and would like to know what some of the better ones are. I've seen some at Guitar Center for prices I can't even discuss—off the scale, so to speak ($100+)—but I also don't want to go cheap. Just like to get some feedback on reliability, flexibility, low noise, etc.

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:49 am
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All you need to know about cables on page 7 of this PDF

http://www.award-session.com/pdfs/GEAR_TALK_1.pdf

Don't fall for the hype.

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:41 am
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Here ya go. You asked for the best. These are for the discriminating man who knows the difference between what he needs and what he wants. Just make sure you're sitting down before you look at the prices after scrolling to the bottom of the page.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

http://www.alessandro-products.com/cables-inst.html

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:45 am
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Why do I hear "double-blind test" here? :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:02 am
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I wonder how a lead increases anything aside from noise, if it's not active.

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:53 am
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Any good, low-capacitence cable works just like any other. But whatever you do, do not buy Monster. That company is built on lies, voodoo and the ugliest legal practices imaginable. To put it bluntly, they suck, and their gigabuck leads don't work any better than anybody else's.

I've got George L's and Planet Waves cables around the studio, and you cannot hear the difference between them in the room or on tape. People who buy extremely expensive cables and say they sound awesome are not dumb: they're just falling victim of a common phenomenon of human perception, which is highly unreliable.

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:44 am
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I just buy the 1/4 mono jack ends and a roll of cable from digikey and make them :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:34 am
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somebizarredude wrote:
I just buy the 1/4 mono jack ends and a roll of cable from digikey and make them :lol:


Put them into your freezer and call them "cryogenically treated" ... :lol:

http://www.cryogenicsinternational.com/posfdbk.htm

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:11 am
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Amerigo wrote:
Put them into your freezer and call them "cryogenically treated" ... :lol:


LMFAO!!!

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:39 am
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20-foot cord for $30 bucks at my local guitar dealer. Plug it in and as long as I hear no buzzing noises, snaps, crackles, pops, or a local AM radio station coming through my amp, I figure I'm ahead of the game.

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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:03 am
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Search the archives in this forum. This topic comes up at least
once a year. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Best Quality Guitar Cable
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:14 am
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Fender had a MIA fully shield guitar cable
it is the best guitar cable i have
too bad it was discontinued.

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