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I use 20' mostly, I prefer the freedom of movement it gives without worrying about it pulling tight.
"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
Plenty for all pubs and potential annoying placement of amp relative to you and a bit of freedom to move.
Not looking for an argument, just curious. Why does timing become a problem over 6 metres or so? Speed of sound being ~300m/s - 10 metres would give ~3ms. Is that enough to matter? How did anyone manage on big stages before IEMs?
IEM's aren't / weren't essential as long as the wedges had the guitar in it. On a big stage there could be 10 wedges plus the drum fill all carrying a mix with your guitar in it so it's not a problem.
If you only have your amp as a monitor though and no IEM's or wedges then you will hear everything a little late. Not a lot but you can certainly feel it. Above 10M is basically unplayable.
It's an effect that's easily demonstrated in the studio. Musicians who don the cans who stand more than 6M or so will still be bang on with the drums. Those who take the cans off for the vibe and stand the same distance away with the drums will be slightly late on everything as they are hearing it later. You can see this effect just by looking at the waveforms on the grid. For a laid back blues session this might be fine but for anything that relies on tight syncopation it's a problem.
I ran a professional recording studio for 5 years and saw / heard this effect all the time and our live room was only 14M by 8
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I like 6m cables for live and 2m for recording
Then it'd be a 5ft cable from the board to my amp. Worked fine for all the venues I played in as the stages weren't overly big and the few festival shows with bigger stages I did it was long enough.
Reason: - on a reasonably big stage I like to get my amp slightly tilted and as far back from me as I can so I can hear it properly.
I also want to get as far away from my drummer's cymbals as I can(!).
A 5m cable also allows me to have a half decent listen to how my amp sounds out front in the rare event we have a soundcheck.
Of course I rapidly discovered the limiting factor is my amp's footswitch not being 5m.
At tomorrows gig (where we've played before) the amp will be 2 foot behind me on a table pointing at my waist (tiny stage).
Terrific.
"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
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