Patch cable lengths

hotpickups

I want to add another pedal to my board. However the only space available is to the right of the board i.e. the input end, but it needs to be last in the chain. This will mean I'd have to make a patch cable long enough to stretch across to the output side of the board. My only query is this, possibly unnecessarily, long cable going to contribute to any tone loss etc. Personally I believe that the lengths of various patch cables linking the pedals (not many by the way) in my case isn't going to matter that much to the naked ear but I've read that cable length can add to the sound in a bad way. Surely I have nothing to worry about?

merlin

Have you considered moving everything up a little? 

hotpickups

merlin said:

Have you considered moving everything up a little? 

It will be an absolute pain to do that believe me. All my EASIS cables are cut to length and will have to re do them. If I can avoid doing it I will. Especially knowing the fact that I may change it all back - knowing me

UnclePsychosis

It won't make much difference. 

ICBM

Are any of your pedals buffered? If so it will make no difference. Even if they're all true bypass it probably won't be audible.

hotpickups

ICBM said:

Are any of your pedals buffered? If so it will make no difference. Even if they're all true bypass it probably won't be audible.

Yeah buffered. That's what I thought. Panicking as usual lol

prowla

After the mechanical contacts, soldered joints, mechanical bypass switches, length of guitar lead to plugboard, length of lead from plugboard to amp, etc. the length of a patch lead itself is not going to make a blind bit of difference.

hotpickups

prowla said:

After the mechanical contacts, soldered joints, mechanical bypass switches, length of guitar lead to plugboard, length of lead from plugboard to amp, etc. the length of a patch lead itself is not going to make a blind bit of difference.

As I thought I needn't have worried but that's me

Dominic

Go on ......now tell us that your pedal board to amp cable is 15 meters long !

hotpickups

Dominic said:

Go on ......now tell us that your pedal board to amp cable is 15 meters long !

ha ha no only a mere 20ft

joetele

I had a similar predicament - two rows of pedals on the board and very short patch cables. I snaked a 1m angled cable underneath the board to connect the two rows. No loss of signal. 

Dominic

If there was any degradation you would never notice it