Cheapest/best place for cable & plugs?

boogieman

Anywhere cheaper or better than Studiospares? I want decent stuff like Sommer cable and Neutrik jacks to make replacements for all my crappy leads.

JookyChap

Check out KABL - buy once and,  well, that's it really.

thermionic

I've made a variety of cables over the years with stuff from Studiospares but they always end up more expensive than ones from the likes of Kabl. I don't think Studiospares are particularly expensive but the stuff becomes much cheaper if you're buying a couple of hundred plugs and a 100m drum of cable. 

Same quality, cheaper price and you have an extra hour or two in the evening - what's not to like?

frictionfraction

Just re cabled my pedalboard with Kabl patch cables after years of periodic frustration with failing George l's when pedals got kicked or knocked. I am well impressed with the kabl's, great tone, high quality well put together and at a price that I could not warrant trying and failing to meet by making them myelf

ThePrettyDamned

I make my own with Van damme cable and neutrik jacks, it's easy, reliable and sounds great because (as you said) it's decent cable and decent plugs. And it is easy - just 2 connections per plug and a 25 watt iron does it quickly the way neutrik ones hold the hot (where it seems you just fill a pot with the wire and solder) works well because, when screwing the jack on, it grips the cable and ensures it is slack inside. Simple, but means that join should never budge.

Someone like kabl will do this, but may offer more types of cable and plugs and guaranteed service, and a price based on bulk ordering of bits. Win win win!

Rocker

Buy decent [Neutrik] jacks.  This is where it does not pay to be a cheapskate.

boogieman

Thanks chaps.

Danny1969

CPC.co.uk  is about the cheapest for Neutrik's and delivery is free

boogieman

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Fez

I wasn't so impressed with the Van damme cable been looking for something better

fretmeister

http://www.kablonline.co.uk/

From our very own Rob Davies

DavidRees

I am a Kabl fanboy ... Rob is your man for top quality service and product at a reasonable price ...

EdGrip

If you don't mind getting your soldering iron out, I heartily recommend "The Spirit XXL" cable by... erm... hang on... 

... Sommer. I will be using it for any and all future cables.

Thomann sell it; you can buy raw cable and loose Neutrik connectors (I did, put some of the nice white Neutriks that you can only seem to get from Thomann on with a vaguely 70s-chic vibe in mind) but I only noticed afterwards that it's actually cheaper to just buy the really long ready-made-up version from them and then cut it up to taste. The jacket is the tough, clear PVC that you associate with tubing from a lawn mower petrol tank, or a morphine drip in a hospital. It makes the rubber jacket of Van Damme and everyone else seem flimsy by comparison. Also, the cable itself is comfortably thick enough to use as speaker cable, despite having a good low capacitance, so you could feasibly just use the same stuff for all your cables and never have to label/worry again. ^_^

RobDavies

Fez said:

I wasn't so impressed with the Van damme cable been looking for something better

Out of interest, what was wrong with it?

Mr_Bluesman

Just to chime in I've always got my stuff from here http://www.audiospares.com/home.php Recently made a ton of custom van damn patch cable for my pedal board with everything from here.