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Wire up your WHOLE DANG ENTIRE BOARD AT ONCE, YOLO HAHA Order parts enough for up to 20 patches at once with this convenient little situation. The screwdriver is NOT included in this kit. Please note that you will need a small flathead screwdriver to fully assemble the kit. The parts in these kits are warrantied by G&H. It WILL be a continuous length of wire unless otherwise requested. There's a reason why this is one of the best solderless cable kits out there.Įach pair of plugs in your order will come with 1' of Solderless Kit Wire in your chosen color. Easy! Angle the cable or keep it straight. Measure, cut, insert, tighten grub screw, test. These low profile pedalboard kits are ace for that tight spot when a patch has failed (knock on wood), and you need something wired up in a jiff. If my memory serves me, the Zvex "Hard On" includes such a thing.The incredibly popular G&H solderless patch cable kit has finally landed in our shop. Now, a buffer at the end of the chain won't compensate the inner capacitance of your pedalboard.Ī good compromise would be to put in the first place a buffer with a FET input stage, which won't alter the signal for other pedals. IĪFAIK, it's a question of impedance, not of capacitance.Īs a matter of fact, if you put a buffer before a Fuzz Face, it will sound like crap. The "Zerocap" cable is out of the comparison because it includes an inner buffer.
In the graphs, we can see that the Elixir Premium has a much lower cap than other models because it lets the pickup resonate at a much higher frequency. So, George L, Klotz or Lava cable, it's apples and oranges.īut if you absolutely need a few names, look here: Guitar cables, evidence that they do make a difference to sound quality I hesitate to recommend a brand because beyond their price and physical specs, each brand tends to have a "sound" due to the dielectric used. Google search "low capacitance guitar cable" and you'll find a few ideas. Yeah, I've done that too in the past with the same impression and have came back to "molded" jack plugs only because they are more solid. It's not an "opinion": that's just the rules of physic. If the single cable between axe and amp has a different capacitance compared to the pedalboard + its two cables, a guitar with passive pickups WON'T sound the same through them, WHATEVER are the cables used. For example, if I use my true bypass analog pedalboard with 2 cables of 3m, I measure a total capacitance of 1150pf (= equivalent of 7m of cable). In my example, using 2 cables of 3m instead of a single 6m one won't suffice since the pedalboard itself has a capacitance. In which case any cable plugged after the buffer is not important because with active electronics, wiring don't make much difference (remember the comparison between expensive loudspeaker cables and coat-hangers).Ģ) measuring the total cap of the single cable between axe and amp (let's say: 1000pf / 1n for a 6m cable) then finding a way to obtain the same overall capacitance with 1 cable + the pedalboard + 1 another cable. Click to expand.Yeah, I've done that too in the past with the same impression and have came back to "molded" jack plugs only because they are more solid.īut it doesn't solve the "capacitive load" issue: once again, for someone who.Ģ) wants his rig to sound the closest to his guitar direct in the amp,ġ) using active electronics in the axe or a transparent buffer as the first pedal of the pedalboard.