Cables really do make a difference!

robinbowes

Time for this, I think:

Dave_Mc

but the fuzz face was

ICBM

Dave_Mc said:

but the fuzz face was

Yes, but given the tone suck from the wah and the Univibe it probably makes no difference .

Dave_Mc

Of course, but I was just arguing with the wording of it

Sassafras

ICBM said:

Dave_Mc said:

but the fuzz face was

Yes, but given the tone suck from the wah and the Univibe it probably makes no difference .

That and the 300 miles of curly cable, and he still managed to sound adequate.

JayGee

Sassafras said:

ICBM said:

Dave_Mc said:

but the fuzz face was

Yes, but given the tone suck from the wah and the Univibe it probably makes no difference .

That and the 300 miles of curly cable, and he still managed to sound adequate.

This is kind of the point isn’t it? 

It’s not about “right” or “ wrong”, or even “good” or “bad”, it’s whether it works for you, with your gear, for your music. If 80’ of cheap and nasty coily lead with a buffered pedal in the “wrong” place and a tone-sucky wah is what works then so be it...

[aside] Wasn’t the “sweet” switch on some PRS guitars originally designed for Carlos Santana to replicate the sound of a long cable so that he could get his “big stage” sound in a studio without needing an enormously long lead?

ICBM

JayGee said:

[aside] Wasn’t the “sweet” switch on some PRS guitars originally designed for Carlos Santana to replicate the sound of a long cable so that he could get his “big stage” sound in a studio without needing an enormously long lead?

It was because he hated the sound of his wireless, and at first solved the problem by actually having a coiled-up standard long cable taped to his guitar strap between the guitar and the wireless pack.