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04-12-2005, 08:54 PM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | Making your own cables
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I haven't bought a cable from a store in ages since I learned how easy it is to make my own. Plus it's cheaper, and I can make them any length I want, with whatever connector I need. If it breaks, then I can easily repair it myself.
Anyone else say goodbye to store bought cables? |
04-13-2005, 12:09 AM
|  | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | | I still buy the odd one occasionally, but I make tons more than I buy. The ones I make are generally very long lived, but they tend to get included with deals for other pieces of gear, so I keep having to make new ones. |
04-13-2005, 12:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Yuma, Az | | | Yup, I make my own cables, too. The one exception is the Zaolla (I think that's spelled right) that I use for my main input (di's, vocals, etc) in the studio. It's WAY higher quality than anything I could make.
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04-13-2005, 08:10 AM
| | Pushin' my soul through the wire... | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Lafayette, IN | | | Yeah, I make my own my own cables. I usually take damaged high quality instrument cables, like monster and horizon (that my musician friends have destroyed), and cut out the shorts and/or replace the plugs.
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04-13-2005, 08:17 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | | I've made many many many patch cables out of regular t.v. coax, and it works perfect... sounds fine. Otherwise, I use plain old Rapco cables...I'd use coax for main lines, but the jacketing isn't nearly flexible enough.
I make speaker cables out of heavy duty extension cords from time to time. |
04-13-2005, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Stillwater Minnesota | | | Low voltage landscpe lighting wire
One of those "dollar" stores had 50' lengths of landscape lighting cable for a $1.00. I made some dandy speaker cables out of it. Worked great.
Also gave some away to model rocketers for ignition wire.
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04-13-2005, 08:23 AM
| | Pushin' my soul through the wire... | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Lafayette, IN | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Mon Rominee I've made many many many patch cables out of regular t.v. coax, and it works perfect... sounds fine. Otherwise, I use plain old Rapco cables...I'd use coax for main lines, but the jacketing isn't nearly flexible enough.
I make speaker cables out of heavy duty extension cords from time to time. | I hae also used t.v. coax. It works great for long runs because it has a high quality conductor and great shielding, but yes, it is rather inflexible. I also just mentioned the use of extension chords as speacker cables in another thread.
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