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View Poll Results: What length instrument cables do you use? | |
1 or less
|    | 3 | 2.07% | |
3
|    | 1 | 0.69% | |
5
|    | 0 | 0% | |
10
|    | 21 | 14.48% | |
15
|    | 38 | 26.21% | |
20
|    | 62 | 42.76% | |
25
| | 10 | 6.90% | |
30
| | 7 | 4.83% | |
35
| | 2 | 1.38% | |
40
| | 0 | 0% | |
45
| | 0 | 0% | |
50 or more
| | 1 | 0.69% |
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12-25-2007, 07:12 PM
| | | | What length instrument cables do you use?
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I use a 20 foot cable to go from my amp to effects and a 20 foot cable to go from my effects to my bass. |
12-25-2007, 07:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC | | | I use 21' from my bass to a Raven Labs MDB-1 (sits atop my head), then a 4' cable into my amp. My speaker cables are 4'. |
12-25-2007, 07:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | i use a 20 foot from bass to turbo rat, and a 10 foot from rat to amp
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12-25-2007, 07:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Austin, TX | | | You forgot the "Grab whatever length you have laying around that works" option in your poll.
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12-25-2007, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | It depends upon where I am. At rehearsal or on very small stages I'll use 10' on big stages 20'-25'.
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12-25-2007, 07:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Earth | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hookus  You forgot the "Grab whatever length you have laying around that works" option in your poll. | Nice. Don't call me when you only leave the house with that 3' patch cable! 
If I have two cabinets and a rack stacked on a large (real) stage it is 25'. Small (bar) stages are single cab and rack I use 15'. I don't use floor pedals so this goes straight to the rack.
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12-25-2007, 08:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tampa / On Tour | | | ive got two cables that i use solely if im not running wireless (which should have been an option) both ~20ft, one's a monster with a right angle plug and the other is just some nice heave gauge cable that i picked up somewhere along the road |
12-25-2007, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by JacksonsMen ive got two cables that i use solely if im not running wireless (which should have been an option) both ~20ft, one's a monster with a right angle plug and the other is just some nice heave gauge cable that i picked up somewhere along the road | Sorry that didn't occur to me. |
12-25-2007, 08:26 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | All of my right angle cables are 20'. So even if I am on a small stage, I use a 20' chord. |
12-25-2007, 08:29 PM
|  | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | Normally wireless if I'm using the big rack. Any other amp, and I think I usually use 20'. I want to get a high-quality 10' just for recording.
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12-25-2007, 08:32 PM
| | ...cultural explorer | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Hinsdale, IL - outside Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hookus You forgot the "Grab whatever length you have laying around that works" option in your poll. | +1
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12-25-2007, 08:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Glendale, AZ | | | Just a foot or two from my bass to the wireless transmitter. When I use a regular cable, I try to keep it under 15'. |
12-25-2007, 08:49 PM
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Owner, Bill Fitzmaurice Loudspeaker Design | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: New Hampshire | | | Long enough to reach from my bass to my amp. |
12-25-2007, 09:46 PM
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Luthier of Michael Wayne Instruments, Shop Manager ChromeDomeMusic | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cincinnati OH | | | wireless
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12-25-2007, 10:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | 20 feet.
sometimes longer, as i'm now paranoid of yanking my LMII off my cab.  |
12-25-2007, 10:34 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Wireless, but...
... I always attach a 25-foot instrument cable to a rack handle with Velcro, ready to go, just in case. |
12-25-2007, 10:37 PM
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Endorsing Artist: GK, Schecter, D'Addario, Normandy, Dunlop | | | | | 15' to my pedalboard, 30' to my amp, 15' speaker cables (I keep my heads off to the side of the stage, if there's room. Closer to me to adjust, and far enough away from the cab to actually HEAR what I'm adjusting.)
BTW, I make all my cables myself, so I know they're high quality. (Mogami cables, Switchcraft or Neutrik ends.)
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12-25-2007, 10:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SF | | | i have a 10 & a 20. to me, i get more punch with the shorter cord. they are
just standard guitar cables, nothin fancy.
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12-25-2007, 10:40 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | I try to use the shortest cables I can in any given set of circumstances.
Moved to miscellaneous.
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12-25-2007, 11:29 PM
|  | ACME, Line 6, SWR, QSC, Greco user/BOSE PAS abuser | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: South Texas | | Wireless.
The "emergency cable" that NADY trained me to ALWAYS have handy in the 80's is a 20 footer. 
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