AxSilentxLine

-solder not triple heat shrink sealed

-no gold plating

-blue is proven to suck tone

2/10 would not use

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Of course.

I know you like MLP; but, do you go to The LP Forum?

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^ no i couldn't register there because i use gmail and their reg system denies all gmail addys. or something.

blue actually improves tone.

it's a proven fact that having a blue gem light on your amp will make your fragile harmonics last longer.

and please, do not buy one, that way there will be more on clearance for me.

Arby911

But each one comes with this free, because the manufacturers know....

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tubetime86

+1

Ice cream causes drowning too. Just look at the stats.

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=anal+lube


teehee...

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Ian_the_fox

I was agreeing with you until the bolded sentence.


The quality of the cables you use absolutely does matter and a piece of shit cable can ruin the tone of an entire rig using a tube amp, yes.

But if you are using a really shitty SS amp like an MG or running your signal through 200 pedals, the difference in cable quality is negligible and you are wasting your time. If shitty amps like Spiders and MG's can't accentuate the unique qualites of different pickups and tone woods, how the hell are cables going to make any difference?

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but live wire cables aren't really shit.

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tubetime86

I was agreeing with you until the bolded phrase. The more pedals you have the more important your cables are, because there is simply more cable.

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mmolteratx

They kind of are, tone wise. Very high capacitance compared to something like Mogami even. Though I'd be willing to bet that capacitance is a lot lower than his coily cable (especially since it's 1/3 the length), and it doesn't have the inductance that the coily cable has, so it should let more highs pass in comparison.



Well, to some extent. After a certain point, you're gonna be getting pretty significant signal loss regardless of your cables. But if you're running that many pedals, you should have a buffer to eliminate the difference.

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Ian_the_fox

This, plus with more patch cables veing thrown out in the mix one is likely to be a dud/tone sucker, unless they are all of top quality and have a slim rate of failure.

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ihartfood

i meant they hold up extremely well. whatever.

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mmolteratx

I had 3 and they all fell apart within 6 months. Not terrible since they've got a lifetime warranty, but I'd never buy one again. Especially when I can build considerably nicer cables cheaper.

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cdr_salamander

Build me sum...

I use live wire, but I never from from my bedroom, so if something falls apart, it is truly. truly shit.

I will eventually upgrade to better ones, but cables are always last on my priority list.

ihartfood

well damn. I abuse mine (as in i flipped an amp over on one of mine) and it works fine.

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Blktiger0

I have the same experience with Monster Cable (well, not LITERALLY that experience, but I've had no issues with mine, despite use and abuse) and if I had a nickel for ever person that claims they're shit, I would be able to buy the company. I've only had one Monster Cable ever fail on me, and it was an XLR cable that was given to me by it's second owner, making me the third, so I'm not complaining.

Like I've always said, as long as you buy a cable that has a lifetime warranty, you'll be fine. It's going to be a quality cable and isn't likely to fail. Sure, you'll have lemons like with anything, and you'll have the people that swear up and down that every one they buy fails within an hour, but if that was actually the case, the company would go under with all of the returns.

Sure, each brand is going to have slightly different tone, but if you're that obssessed to the point of trying 12 different brands of cable to "get your tone" then you have too much time and need a lady friend that will spend naughty time with you.

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So far (in about 5+ years), the only problems I've had cable-wise was with connectors.

That was with mic cable that Musician's Friend had sold under the Live Wire name, but clearly they weren't Live Wire. I cut the cheap XLRs off and replaced with Neutriks; no more problems. The customer support folks sent me a replacement and didn't want the old ones back. The replacement was just as bad as the original, so I replaced the connectors on it too and now it's fine. Guitar Center (same company) sells that same cable as a generic off the floor.

The only cables I've really hated were Hosas; which is kind of funny since that's just Neutrik's Made in China brand. The connectors were fine, but the cable itself was too thick and not pliable enough. It gets kinked easily.

Mogami is the same company as MXL microphones. They use the same Neutrik connectors that come on real Live Wires. Has anyone actually tested capacitance on Mogami cable? I'm not impressed with the parent company and wonder if Mogami isn't a little like Monster.

ihartfood

seeing as this has turned into a cable review thread, what do y'all think of the lower end Monster cables? like the s-100

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