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| Re: Hooly Dooly - Monster guitar cable [message #101302 is a reply to message #101291] |
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A long time ago I was working at Washington Music Center in Maryland and I
bought some Monster mic cable w/ my employee discount. Even then it cost
something stupid like $1.50/foot but I bit the bullet and bought 50 feet
of it to check out. I built two mic cables and a 10' guitar cable. It was
a major pain to work with because the individual strands were individually
insulated so soldering was a time consuming - I had to melt the insulation
off before the copper would take the solder. I took the 10' cable to my
gig that night. It was totally mind blowing! The difference was as dramatic
as changing strings after a long stretch. More highs, more lows, more dynamics.
So, being a glutton for punishment, I replaced every cable in my rig w/
Monster wire. I once had a friend with a EE degree explain at great length
that wire is wire but my ears tell me different. Since then I discovered
that the George L wire seems to sound just as good and is cheaper and easier
to work with. You might want to give that a try too...
Gantt
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
>"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
>it made his Sadowsky and vintage P the happiest.
>
>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?
>
>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.
>
>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
>$250 to a pack of Cayman Island IP rapists if I can help it).
>
>Eeeenteresting.
>
>- K
>
Gantt Kushner
Gizmo Recording Company
Silver Spring, MD
www.gizmorecording.com
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