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    I have a nice 50 foot guitar cable that I want to turn into shorter cables, and I have ends to solder on. Would you suggest I make 3-16.5 foot cables or 2-25 foot cables, or should I forget the whole thing and just have a cold beer?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudman
    I have a nice 50 foot guitar cable that I want to turn into shorter cables, and I have ends to solder on. Would you suggest I make 3-16.5 foot cables or 2-25 foot cables, or should I forget the whole thing and just have a cold beer?
    Hey Spud.. make 3= 16.5 foot cables and then have a beer or 2 or 3 !!:




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    The shorter cables, the better.

    Same principle applies for beer. The more beer, the better.
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    Well...I had a beer and thought about it. I'm going with 3 cables. That would give me approximately 13 feet to the pedal board then another 16 to roam. And how many time do you ever get to play on a stage that gives you 16 feet to move anyway?

    Anyway I probably shouldn't be playing with a soldering iron right now so I might just go for a drive instead.

    I guess I could just give the third cable away to some lucky fretter that can tell me what my 3rd grade teacher's name was.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sunvalleylaw
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    M I N E ! Not yours.

    FYI. If you are ever making your own cables...be sure to put the barrel on the cable BEFORE you solder the tips on.

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    You should have stuck with the beers.

    Just being a noodge, but isn't there something about capacitance (or is it resistance - I not much of an electronitian) in cables that make longer cables more tone-worthy.

    Maybe I'll just join you in another beer. Skoal!
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    I'm not sure I need another beer. I got pretty fluxed up tonight.

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    It's the opposite. The shorter, the better they sound.

    Quote Originally Posted by t_ross33
    You should have stuck with the beers.

    Just being a noodge, but isn't there something about capacitance (or is it resistance - I not much of an electronitian) in cables that make longer cables more tone-worthy.

    Maybe I'll just join you in another beer. Skoal!
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    Spudman,

    On some cables there is a black inner shield that is conductive. It surrounds the center conductor but is insulated from it. I found out the hard way that shorting this inner shield to the center conductor really dulls the sound of the cable. Just a heads up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudman
    M I N E ! Not yours.

    FYI. If you are ever making your own cables...be sure to put the barrel on the cable BEFORE you solder the tips on.

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    Default Good and cheap

    So here is what I did.

    I got a pretty good 50 foot guitar cable from Sweetwater Sound and a couple of Neutrik right angle plugs. Did a patient solder job (flux makes all the difference in the world) and ended up with 3 new cables for cheap. Added heat shrink material for strain relief and now I'm good to go.

    Props go out to the guys at Ear Candy Cabinets for treating me to the Neutrik plugs. I ordered something from them and they just threw a whole bunch of extra plugs in with the order. Great guys, great cabinets!

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    Looks very professionally done spud. I got a 15 and a 25 footers I need to repair. I like those ends.
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    I think you can get heat shrink material at Radio Shack. It's cheap and if it gets me more mileage out of a cable by providing extra strain relief then I'm all for it.

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    My cables got strain reliefs as long as what's in the pics but they still break. Rapco's the brand and probably cheap but $16 and $20 don't sound cheap to me.
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    I'm thinking 50 1 footers would have turned you into a soldering pro Spuds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ted s
    I'm thinking 50 1 footers would have turned you into a soldering pro Spuds.
    I don't know why I didn't think of that. I love self improvement.:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudman
    I don't know why I didn't think of that. I love self improvement.:
    I hope you have a bunch of pedals to make use of these cables.
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