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View Poll Results: DIY Cable of Choice?
George L's 3 15.79%
Lava 4 21.05%
Planet Waves 0 0%
Hosa 3 15.79%
Custom cable & soldered jacks 9 47.37%
Whatever the guitar store has 0 0%
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Old 10-04-2009, 03:55 PM
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DIY patch cables of choice?

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George L's
Lavas
Planet Waves
Hosa
Custom cable & self-soldered jacks
Whatever they have at the guitar store

What's yours and why?
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Old 10-04-2009, 04:35 PM
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Hosa currently, but I'll be switching to the Lava kits pretty soon.
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Old 10-04-2009, 06:37 PM
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I love my Lava kit. Sounds great, never failed on me and makes for tight spacing between pedals.

Just wished it would come with a few more connectors.
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Old 10-04-2009, 06:43 PM
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I voted for the soldered/diy - save a lot of money.

I prefer to solder plugs on the ends of mine instead of jacks though.
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Old 10-04-2009, 08:30 PM
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I make mine out of Canare GS-6 and G&H nickel jacks.

High quality stuff, and I know that the solder joints and what not are good. Also, its pretty cost effective, and it's a useful resource to know how to solder and make your own cables.

Made all these patch cables just this weekend:

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I'll be putting together Evidence Audio Monorail cables here in the next couple months.
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Old 10-04-2009, 08:55 PM
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I'll be putting together Evidence Audio Monorail cables here in the next couple months.
thats SO expensive!

Canare GS-6 is 75 cents a foot with free shipping from my supplier, and its as good as any cable you'll ever use!
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Old 10-04-2009, 09:26 PM
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I've a lot of issues with the Geo. Ls, but it might just be me.
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I've a lot of issues with the Geo. Ls, but it might just be me.
the two guitar players I play with got talked into buying these - the last road trip we had three seperate failures over the span of four days - I'll never use em - they are small and light and pieces of crap.
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I make mine out of Canare GS-6 and G&H nickel jacks.
Exactly what I make mine out of too.
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Old 10-04-2009, 09:50 PM
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I have George L's on both of my pedal boards and have never had a problem. I use my main pedal board 150-200 gigs a year.
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