How long is your cord?

[DWBass]

I typically buy 12-15ft cables.

 

[hondo4life]

12' Mogami "Silver Series", yet it has the bling bling gold tips. Eh, whatever. It's just long enough that I can move around, yet short enough that it doesn't drive me nuts.

 

[Nohrellas]

9m, that would be 30'. Cordial, by the way.

 

[10cc]

Well it's not that long but its skinny

 

[Beavisplaysbass]

For all those making penis jokes - remember, it's about the girth of your cord, not the length.

Chinese noodles

 

[Humbled]

I use 18ft, 20ft, or 25ft.

If you over-under them, it really makes no difference.

I used to be wireless, but I can't even remember when I lost it, much less where.


I guess I didn't like it enough to bother to replace it.

I can remember one time when I got a CB radio coming in on my wireless during a show.

The Truck (with an illegally overpowered Linear) was very close behind the stage.



Breaker-breaker.


Good buddy.

 

[Daddy-R]

About 2' from the receiver to the amp, and about 1' cable from the bass to the X-Mitter.

 

[BigEarl]

Just ordered a Line 6 Relay G10 wireless today, so hopefully 0' tomorrow!

 

[BaltBass5]

Line 6 G70 for the past 3 years...I've been wireless for about 20 years!

 

[pfschim]

I use 10' or 15' Planet Waves switching(shorting) cable between my bass and pedalboard. I carry 10', 20' and 25' cables for the pedalboard to amp link.
So, I can be as much as 40' from my amp (never had to do that, but I can if I need to).
I know some don't like the shorting cords, but I have never had a problem with the ones I have used, and I find them very handy.
I sing in all the bands that I play with, so I generally am not wandering too far from my mic stand on any gig .. even on very large stages.

 

[agedhorse]

225 foot to FOH

 

[edencab]

I sit on a stool right next to my amp so I can get away with using a fairly short cable. I mostly use an unlabeled old coily cable I found in a closet at church because it has the brightest tone (letting the most high frequency content pass through the cable) of any cable I've used with my passive basses. It's about six feet long before stretching and I've never stretched it out to see what the total length is. My main cable before that was an 18-foot Elixer that comes close in brightness, but it was always too long, getting tangled near my feet. I still use it at home and recently the connectors started started getting intermittent so I ordered up some Neutrik connectors and shortened the cable to 15 feet while I was installing them.

uh oh ...a bright cable situation

 

[edencab]

10' in the jam room as I am never more than 3' from my cab with a rare 7' wander to see how we sound from the front....live 20' becuase who know how big the stage will be

 

[MegaSwing]

I like 12-footers. Onstage, I don't generally move around or stray far from my amp. They also fit nicely in a gig bag.

At home I use 18-20-footers, because often enough I'm across the room from the amp.

 

[bobcruz]

uh oh ...a bright cable situation

Well, yeah, like who wants a cable that dulls down your passive bass tone (Monster "Bass" cable, anyone)? I just wish I knew how that unknown brand coily cable, which is also likely ancient from the looks of the connectors, has less capacitance than the Elixir, which measured as the lowest capacitance per foot in TB'er Bongomania's tests: Audio Cables Compared and Recommended.

 

[fretlessguy]

I find 12-15 feet to be the best for what I do. Any shorter is well.....too short and anything above 15 feet I just get tangled up in.

 

[mindwell]

Well now, that's a rather...personal question, isn't it?

 

[packhowitzer]

Long enough that I've never gotten any complaints about it.

 

[rodl2005]

That's a personal question. You're going to have to take me to dinner at least before we discuss such matters.

Long enough that some girls ask me to not use all of it

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Gigs: G30 wireless (just because I don't like to have a cable hanging in/near my legs)
Jams: 15-20 ft.