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I really don't believe them to be honest, it's not the lowest capacitance but it's fine plugged straight into the amp! So can't be that bad.
I gave up using single screened "guitar" cables some years ago.
Decent quality "balanced" mic cable is at least the same cost if not cheaper and if you wire it such that you have one "hot" core and tie the cold core to screen you get the lowest possible capacitance. This connection mode also greatly reduces cable microphonics.
Plus of course you can make mic leads and even headphone extensions with it.
Dave.
The other reason using twin-core cable is better is that it's more reliable, since both the shield and the 'cold' wires have to break before the ground connection is broken. This matters more even than stopping the 'hot' core breaking because that will just produce silence or a mild hum, whereas breaking the ground causes a very loud hum... not good at gig volume!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I find the most difficult bit is getting a clean sacrifice on the virgin. It's more of a knack thing than it is technique.
Practice makes perfect, as they say. I've not used them, but I was looking at http://uk.mouser.com/ . They stock both the 8412 and the switchcraft jacks. I've been meaning to post here to gauge interest on a "group buy". i.e. we'd get together and buy a load off them (and get the good price breaks). I don't really need 100 jack connectors, but I do like the price ...
Hard work screwing them together! I use pliers to grab it. However, once done, it's solid and you should have a pretty reliable cable.
Edit: this is true for full size jacks. Not sure about pancakes and whatnot.
The new smaller PX series are my favourites for instrument cables, both the straight and the right-angle, although I still like the old larger NP2Cs for speaker cables.
There's no other design that eliminates the weak points of the centre rivet, contact join in the ground path and cable clamp in the way these do.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein