Super chuffed - Kabl Multi-core all the way!

William Williamson

After a post on this board about my Runt's noisy FX loop I found it to be the cumulative affect of a number of factors:

- A high level of presence
- Having the 'echo' set high on my DM-2w which adds noise to the echoes
- Typically playing with single coils
- Having terrible, terrible cables.

The latter was all the more disturbing that I could move my FX loop cables and hear static and them dragging around the floor through the guitar amp itself - moving them would introduce and remove noise (above and beyond the low level hiss expected).

With some high praise on the forum, I decided to go with "kabl" @RobDavies. I have a cable from my gain pedals into the front of my amp, a cable from my FX send, a cable back into the FX return and a foot switch - it was a real rats nest. Rob made me up a four-core cable with colour coded neutrik jacks - it's all a single cable (around 2x as thick as a cheap instrument cable) until the last 18" on each end, where I have four thinner cables with the jacks on the outside. Green from my OD to front of the head, Yellow FX send, Red FX return and Blue for my foot switch. On the pedalboard side it's all underneath the board and on the head I've used a little velcro fastener to bundle the cables around the back.

It's completely noise free (as one would expect) and I can shove my pedalboard around without various cables catching on corners, no disparate lengths. Of course, it also looks ALOT neater which scores me points with the missus.

Overall, would definitely buy again (although I can't foresee having a need to - this looks like it could withstand a war).

DanR

Have you got some pics of it all set up?

William Williamson

@danR just snapped a pic.

I think I could have gone shorter on the ends, but I wanted to make sure I could use this same cable across bigger boards, different heads with odd socket positions, etc.:

DanR

That looks very neat, I'm gonna have a look at that for my rats nest.

William Williamson

Yep, I deliberately didn't shuffle anything to make it look nicer. I could put a glamour shot up but figured 'in the wild' was more appropriate for the discussion. Rob is a really nice chap, did me a good deal and it's a wonderful quality product. I hadn't even twigged that multi-core was an option but he suggested when I talked about bundling them in a wrap.

JayGee

Hmm...

I think I'm going to have to have a chat with Rob about this...

clarkefan

Can I ask what is supporting the weight of the cable at the amp end?  

In the large photo above it sort of looks like the lead to the fx return (the yellow one) is being pulled on a little?

William Williamson

@clarkefan  the cable is very sturdy as well as being light - so while technically yes, I've just got it hanging off the tautness of the yellow socketed cable, there's no danger of it stressing the connector at all as the cumulative (again, twice in one thread?) weight is very low.

sgosden

Ooooh this could be a good alternative to the 12ft diameter snake I made myself!