Pedal cable recommendations

[TmcB]

OK option 1
12 Switchcraft right angle jacks rrp $9.60 each plus a metre of our best guitar cable $99 plus 7 delivery anywhere except RD address's

Option 2 Add in 2 x straight Switchcraft jacks and 5m extra of the same cable so you can make yourself a good lead while you are at it just add $18

RD address's add $5

Pickup possible

I have some cheaper jacks if the fund drawer is empty

Is there much difference between http://www.jansen.co.nz/product.php?b=&sku=S510, http://www.jansen.co.nz/product.php?b=&sku=S240 and http://www.jansen.co.nz/product.php?b=&sku=226?

[Zaulkin]

I'm just making my own these days having tried the big $ ones....and have them fail on me. Soldering is the way to go too for connections.

Yep, I've tried lava, george l's and plenty of others. The George L's were shitty and kept breaking. I've been using G&H plugs with canare cable for years now and they've never broken. Made them myself (and have developed some pretty legit cable making skill if i may say so myself).

[nzsimon1]

Is there much difference between http://www.jansen.co.nz/product.php?b=&sku=S510, http://www.jansen.co.nz/product.php?b=&sku=S240 and http://www.jansen.co.nz/product.php?b=&sku=226?[/quote]

the 226 are switchcraft which is am american co the others are chinese but as good as anything else that isn't switchcraft or Neutrik

although the neutrik jacks can be hard to solder

[mr_sooty]

I use the cheap EWI cables and my pedal board sounds brilliant. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I bought all the black ones when i was at music planet so i don't get hassled about my cheap cables. The only cheap patch cables I've ever had problems with were the warwick rock cable ones. They were rubbish. Never had problems with the EWI or Proel cheapies.

[Aquila Rossa]

I can't be assed with soldering, snipping and all of that, even solderless is a pain at times. I just got Ryan to make up a swag of freedom cables for me instead. They did not cost too much and have lasted really, really well. No issues with them at all. The parts he used would make them hard to beat for sound quality too.

[Starfire]

The Lava cable kits are good, especially for someone like me who is useless at soldering and doesn't have much of a pedalboard anyway. It's great being able to make the cables to the length you want. For example, I needed two quite long-ish cables to hook up my Reel Echo in stereo. I did find that the Lava cables needed a little trouble shooting. The design is good, but not entirely without flaw. But once they were wokring they're great and, more importantly, no tone-suck!

[willow13]

what are those things that are just "male/male" jacks back to back?? They don't seem to be used much, any reason for this??....just asking because I made one from the connections daza oops I mean rhett posted and its great

[RuBear]

Mechanical link between two pedals means you can be putting force on the jacks of the pedals when you press one of the foot switches. I have used them without problem, but I don't any more just from looking at the movement when my weight is on one.

[mr_sooty]

I don't really get all the fuss about patch cables and tone really. Surely a signal path can only be as good as it's weakest link. So given that most pedals have a tiny little piece of hook-up wire between the inputs and outputs of the pedal, I would think that as long as your patch cable is at least as effective at carrying the signal as all those little pieces of hook up wire then it can't be making your tone worse can it? I mean how can a patch cable actually take a signal and make it better than whatever the piece of hook up wire did to it? And when I look at the insanely flimsy bits of wire that come from my dimarzio pickups to the switch on my guitar, I look at my cheap patch cables and think yep, they'll do. I feel that the benefit of good patch cables is reliability, and surely that's pretty much it. so much fuss about George l cables and yet people have more problems with them than I do with the cheap plastic ones.

[bender]

Having recently tried to recycle a bung coloured one I can tell you that the conductors inside are considerably lighter/flimsier than anything I've seen hanging off a pickup or inside a pedal. Does that make a difference? I don't know. I'm very happy with my home made ones though. Net cost: approx $35 for 10 of them.

[Clarky]

Tony, I have a spare stack of dozens of 90 degree patch cables from the many incarnations of my pedal board. Work out how many 12" and 6" ones you need, PM me, and I'll work out a sharp $ deal for you bro.

[RuBear]

Surely a signal path can only be as good as it's weakest link.

Nope. It's more about the capacitance and noise susceptance (not susceptance the electrical parameter). These are both accumulative.

However capacitance makes almost no difference when it is after an adequate buffer apart from in extreme cases. My advice: get a good guitar cable to get you to your board and then don't worry about it unless you have a problem.

[willow13]

Mechanical link between two pedals means you can be putting force on the jacks of the pedals when you press one of the foot switches. I have used them without problem, but I don't any more just from looking at the movement when my weight is on one.

I think I am ok from that regard because all my pedals are the same brand so all sit at the same height which I think lessens the force on them....hopefully.

[RuBear]

As an aside, if we were talking about a cable that was used to carry current (say in the power system) then your reasoning would be absolutely correct Sooty, as the current limit would be decided by the lowest maximum current in the path.

[Tonemaker]

Someone I saw had really thin cable between pedals and I really liked that look, kinda funny looking tips 90degrees.... are those georgle l's the idea of a thin and flexfriendly cable is nice...