| Re: Hooly Dooly - Monster guitar cable [message #101296 is a reply to message #101292] |
Thu, 27 November 2008 16:41   |
Kerry Galloway
Messages: 56
Registered: December 2008
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Woot! Well, I already have an old Eden Traveller WT400; I might have to
plug it in and see. Rumor was that Demeter designed the pres on the old
ones.
- K
On 2008-11-27 14:16:28 -0800, "John" <no@no.com> said:
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> If you feed it directly into this you'll have multiple orgasms.
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> http://www.eden-electronics.com/products/amps/indiv/wp100.as p
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> KerryGalloway <kerrygalloway@telus.net> wrote:
>> I had my old friend Norm Fisher over yesterday, we were shooting out
>> bass DIs for his rig. We shot out three Radials (JDI, J48, a
>> BassBone), my trusty Demeter VTBP-201 and a Bare Knuckle Audio handmade
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>> "black box". We decided the JDI was the way to go (the Demeter was the
>> fave but it was just for reference, he's not looking for a rackmount;
>> we'd already shot out the REDDI previously, but although it sounds
>> killer soloed we love what the Demeter does to bass in the track) since
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>> it made his Sadowsky and vintage P the happiest.
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>> And then Warren, my tenant (the tenant who just happens to be a music
>> editor, an engineer and an ex-Fodera luthier for good measure) brings
>> up a $250 Monster bass patch cord he was given as a gift. We laughed,
>> knowing it was all hype - a decent cable (which we were already using)
>> is a decent cable, right?
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>> Wrong. We weren't laughing after putting it through its paces. Holy
>> snap, the difference between the Monster cable and the regular
>> (good-quality) cable was every bit as profound as the difference
>> between DIs. Less harsh highs, rounder lows, tighter bottom. It's
>> supposedly a "one way" cable, and honestly we couldn't hear a scrap of
>> difference between directions - but the raw sound was *definitely* the
>> surprise of the day.
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>> Norm is Bryan Adams' bassist, and his tech keeps threatening to build
>> him "Monster-quality" patch cables, so next step we get a few of those
>> puppies built and shoot them out against the Monster (I ain't payin' no
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>> $250 to a pack of Cayman Island IP rapists if I can help it).
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>> Eeeenteresting.
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>> - K
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