[sdiy] Patch cables?

[Seb Francis]

NATE! wrote:
> it's like generic cables vs
> monstercable or something like that.
If by generic you mean the cheapest of the cheap, then yeah.
> a friend of mine recently lost [well,
> it broke after like six years] his expensive guitar cable and i noticed a
> big difference in sound when he was playing with a differnet "model" cable
> from the same company... i've got certain cables that i prefer over others
> that actually do affect tone. i'm not going to go like THAT CABLE SUCKS! i
> just don't prefer the tone :)
>
>   
Ah, but guitar is a bit of a special case because the low signal level 
and high output impedance means that the capacitance and other parasitic 
effects of the cable are actually quite significant to the tone.

But I still maintain that with a decent signal level & impedances - and 
I would include most line level & pro level studio equipment in this 
bracket - you will not notice a tonal difference between ordinary cable 
and super high-end cable.  This may not be so true for long cable runs, 
and of course hum-pickup will depend on the quality of the shielding 
(and more significantly on whether connections are balanced or not).

Seb