Orange Amps Forum

Hey guys,
So ive heard the quality of patch cord you use makes quite a difference with preserving your natural guitar signal. what kind of cables can you recommend to connect pedals with? i use monster patch cords but im wondering if its worth it to shell out the big $$ for good pedal cords ie: monster
thanks

monster's are perfectly fine

i have monster cords between all my equipment, but on my pedal board i just have the ones you get from gutiar center. im wondering if i should upgrade these as well?..

IMHO to spend more than what a Monster costs (8" = $24.95 500 series @ Musicians Friend) is a BIG waste of $$ and is just plain stupid - IMHO

so you're saying monster is the most you should throw down for cords?

www.lavacable.com
Email mark, and tell him what you need, and he'll give you price quotes for pretty much all the different brands he offers. At one point in time I was running about 15 or 16 pedals on my board, and my tone was getting so thin and compressed I couldn't stand it anymore. I spent around $250 on patch cables for my whole board and I immediately noticed a difference. Everything opened back up again. Anyone who says that good patch cables won't make a difference, simply hasn't tried good patch cables.

I would say that $25 for a 8" cable is WAY TOO MUCH for a patch cable. You could make your own for $10. The most expensive thing in patch cables (if you're doing the bulk figures for the whole project) is buying the jacks. The cable costs $0.69 (the Canare cable I use is great, in my opinion of course), so you can buy 10 feet and make enough 8" patch cable lengths to even work for Andy's pedal board.

The jacks, on the other hand, cost in the range of $2.50 a piece, so you're paying $5 for plugs, and less than $1 for cable. But it's still really great quality, and it's nearly half as cheap (or more!) as buying monster.

And I'll be making a video soon on how to solder up/assemble the above pieces. Because I care InRainBows, because I care.

Neil is the MAN.

You should be buying Canare cable and making your own.
OR George Ls cable. 5 GREAT quality cables for $65.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... c=3SOSWXXA

~GuitarMD~

I thought the george l's were kind of...meh. Didn't sound that amazing, and they'd crap out constantly(given they're really easy to fix, when you've to trouble shoot between 15 pedals, it's a bit of a Pain in the.... to find the culprit)

I still use George L's between pedals when I need a longer run.
I do try to use these as much as possible however...
even over the George L's.
Never ever had one fail, never!

where did you get those?! great idea

I use George L's. They can crap out on you though so be aware of that.

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<br />where did you get those?! great idea
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I got them all off of ebay.
the plastic ones are Planet waves;

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Planet-Waves-1- ... dZViewItem

and there are these;

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Crank-Style-Guita ... dZViewItem

and somemore;

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-5-each-1-4-to-1 ... dZViewItem

some more, never tried these;

http://cgi.ebay.com/6-NEW-Horizon-Guita ... dZViewItem




I've been really lucky with them, none have shorted out, no added
noise, I love em![:p][:p][:p]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> got them all off of ebay.
the plastic ones are Planet waves;
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On this occasion....as Marks agent.............there will be no charge for this information!

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<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> got them all off of ebay.
the plastic ones are Planet waves;
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On this occasion....as Marks agent.............there will be no charge for this information!
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Brian send me a bill, I must owe you a few grand by now for being my
agent!