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08-12-2010, 07:19 PM
| | | | what causes instrument cables to not work any longer?
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Why do instrument cables suddenly stop working? Everything else equal, bass to amp, works with another cable, etc.
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08-12-2010, 07:21 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Empire State | | | Many factors, but the most common is the solder connection. Loose wires can disconnect easily if you abuse cables. |
08-13-2010, 07:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Deep East Texas Piney Woods | | | Stepping on them, breaking the wires inside the cable, is where mine fail. |
08-13-2010, 07:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Austin, TX | | | I have had the same cable for like 8 years- replaced one of the connectors, and that damage was to the actual connector, not the solder connections. Before that I had one cable that I used for probably 4 years with no problems - only got rid of it because it was neon blue.
My guitar player, and almost all guitar players I know, seem to always have problems with their cables... all of them, all the time. What gives?? |
08-13-2010, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Dunfermline, Scotland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hennessybass  My guitar player, and almost all guitar players I know, seem to always have problems with their cables... all of them, all the time. What gives?? | Too much posing and jumping around. 
Seriously though until I moved house last year I still had a box of stuffed cables from when I'd been playing guitar. They never seemed to last more than six months. i haven't been playing bass long enough to find out if I'm still as hard on them.
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08-13-2010, 07:52 PM
| | | | Typically it is a broken solder connection on the "ring" or "tip"
at the end of the cable. Easy fix. If you are going to be using your cables a lot... pick up a soldering pencil and some "44" rosin core solder at Radio Shack. Practice or have someone show you how to solder. It is very easy. A 20watt pencil should do.
Cables do break somewhere other than the ends but not as often as the end connectors.
I have also had the female jack that is installed in the Bass get sloppy (open up) and that can also cause intermittent
problems. You have to close up the spring loaded female
connector a pinch. |
08-13-2010, 08:00 PM
|  | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | I will probably get flamed to a crisp for saying this, but in my experience, the more expensive and better constructed cables have far outlasted cheapie cables. Again, that is just my personal experience.
YMMV of course.
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08-13-2010, 09:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | | ^ Yup, you get what you pay for.
Buy a good cable such as Monster, It breaks, return it for a replacement.
Or better yet step into the 21st century, and go wireless.
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08-13-2010, 09:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sarasota, Florida, USA | | | Running over cables with a grand piano is usually not good for them, either. |
08-14-2010, 01:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | | Hi.
Quality cables tend to last almost forever.
Quality connectors are about the same.
It's usually the (incorrectly made) solder joint that gives up, and after a few centimeters off the end of the cable, re-strip and soldering, the cable is as good as new.
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