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The simple fact is you're introducing another level of un-needed complexity and another level of potential failure in the interests of pose factor (don't mean that quite as harshly as that but...)
I decided against long ago.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
But my point remains that it's another level of complexity that doesn't add any real value other than neatness.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
There's a school of thought that says the increased impedence in curly cables (they're longer than their 'real' length if you get my drift) offers a tone change which some like- may be snake oil but Hendrix types deffo believe this.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
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As mentioned above, if you intend to run long cables you could do with a buffer/line driver to avoid treble loss from the high capacitance of long cable runs. Just make sure you have a good buffered pedal or get a small buffer box (klon-style or cornish-style are common - check out you friendly local Fretboard pedal builders).
In a studio, long cable runs would also be balanced (which means they carry two signals in- and out-of-phase which are then summed back together at the end - exactly the same principle as in a humbucker pickup) but this would probably be overkill for a home practice setup.
Having everything set up and ready to go with just the throw of a couple of switches has made a huge difference with my own setup. I can literally be plugged in and playing in seconds. If I had to set up all my pedals, etc individually each time it would take at least 10 minutes (and I used to do exactly this at gigs years ago and so got pretty efficient at doing so!) - so much nicer to have it all ready to go.
Yes, the increased capacitance will result in a treble loss but as IC says, you might like it!
Then, if tinkering is your game, why not build a buffer and run the guitar into it first? This can be a very simple TL072 unity gain follower but break the guitar worlds habit and use TWO PP3s as a split supply! This will give such high headroom that the buffer will be totally transparent with even the hottest humbucker.
Having a low Z start to the wires will also combat hum.
One possible problem is RFI on such long, unbalanced cables. I suggest the use of two core "mic" cable and use the second core as the return conductor. The shield is just connected to earth and forms no part of the signal path.
And err, longer, higher capacitance cables mean a LOWER Z not higher.
Dave.