Recommendations for instrument cables please.

[byacey]

Pro Audio LA offers a lifetime warranty.
https://www.proaudiola.com
Custom made, choice of cabling, plugs, colors etc. I had a silent plug fail and they fixed it no questions asked. Ive been using the same cables for about 7 years so far.
Great products from an independent business.

Those look like decent cables at a decent price.

 

[GreyBeard]

Whirlwind

 

[byacey]

You ALWAYS buy the best cables you can. It never fails to amaze me to see some guy with a gorgeous 6 grand bass playing though bargain-bin Guitar Center crap-ola cables. Don't Be That Guy !

Years ago, after getting stung a few times on the band stand with 'OK' cables, I made up my mind to spend the money to buy great ones and never had a problem since.

If I'm using off the rack cables, Mogami. Even the least expensive Mogami is better than a lot of 'good' cables.

MOGAMI® - Professional Audio Cables (mogamicable.com)

If I need a custom length or custom cable of some kind, get with my friend Butch at Bayou Cables down in Baton Rouge. Retired Navy electronic tech, great work, love his cables. My 12-foot practice-at-the-house cable he made, Canare cable with Neutriks both ends, and the right angle Neutrik Gen 2 silent plug for the bass end. Love it. THIS is a guy you never have to worry about getting stiffed with fake Neutriks. A really good dude, and reasonable.

Bayou Audio Cables (bayoucables.com)

Except cable quality is not directly proportional to cost. Some of the most ridiculously expensive cables really aren't all that great.

 

[Jeff Hughes]

The Planet waves cables are great. Done tons of gigs, thrown them in bags with gear in them, laid them in water during rainstorms, and I have never had one fail.

I have so many of them.

 

[Johnny Fingers]

Recently one of my 20 foot 20 year old cables started making some handling noise so I switched to a Whirlwind 25 foot 35 year old cable.
Don’t know if re-doing the ends will help.

 

[Element Zero]

Cables are cables… that being said, don’t buy the cheapest crap cuz we’ll, they’re crap. Not sure how rough you are with your gear, but I have 2 Monster cables I’ve had since ‘06 with not problems after hundreds of gigs. I also have 2 Mogami cables I pretty much just use at home and they’re just fine too.

 

[byacey]

Cables are cables… that being said, don’t buy the cheapest crap cuz we’ll, they’re crap. Not sure how rough you are with your gear, but I have 2 Monster cables I’ve had since ‘06 with not problems after hundreds of gigs. I also have 2 Mogami cables I pretty much just use at home and they’re just fine too.

2006 isn't much of a test. I'm still using cables I made in the mid 1980s.

 

[TTPbass1]

Rattlesnake and Xbass, best cables around

 

[Lenny JG]

I've been using SORRY cables, Roland cables, or building my own.

 

[Killing Floor]

Rattlesnake Cables. Best wire, best jacks, best jacket, best customer service. Or buy junk, your money.

Seriously. Rattlesnake. Not worth skimping here. They are the best.

 

[JW56789]

Except cable quality is not directly proportional to cost. Some of the most ridiculously expensive cables really aren't all that great.

Byacey, I'm not talking about those idiot thousand(s)+ dollar cables that float around guys that smoke a pipe and live and die by The Absolute Sound, or some like-minded musicians. Mogami factory cables, and my Bayou Cables guy only uses Neutrik, Switchcraft, and Canare. These are all industry standards on the biggest stages, broadcast, and motion picture, and while not the cheapest, not stoopid money way past the point of audible returns. I've learned the hard way to hate budget cables.

Although I do get a big bang out of listening WHY a five-thousand dollar three foot IEC toaster cable to go from crappy aluminum house wiring off the pole through the wall socket to some megabuck hand-built electronic temple really is supposed to make it sound better. I'll have what he's drinking . . . .

 

[sowilson]

I just make my own from canare or mogami cable. Switchcraft, Neutrik, or Canare connectors. If I want flash I'll add some braid over the top.

 

[JW56789]

Prices are SUPER reasonable. Thanks for this rec. Gonna hit him up when I need a new cable.

Butch is good people, and I've always had terrific luck with him, and the cables are BUILT. Handy if you need different lengths other than the usual suspects.

 

[Oldbasslover]

I second and third the recommendation for Butch at Bayou Audio Cables. Does great work, uses top notch materials. They will out live you, unless you use them for bungie jumping…

 

[mike buzzetti]

damn I got cable from 40 yrs ago and still use em ?? I maybe have a failure every 10yr and I tie them in KNOTS , you must be buying some not so good cables ???

 

[oren]

I’ve been using Spectraflex Fatso cables for the last five or six years and have been quite happy with them.

 

[Rojd]

Rattlesnake Cables

 

[definenredefine]

I guess I'm the sucker that buys Ernie Ball or Boss cables when they come on Musician's Friend's stupid deal. Whatever, they're nice looking and work just fine and have a right angle on one end. Haven't had one fail yet...

 

[Hypocrite]

I like a good braided cable with Switchcraft plugs, Dimarzio's are the best I've tried. I had a couple of Klotz that only lasted about five years before they crapped out. My guitarist has used and abused Dimarzio's for a good ten years and I'm amazed that they still work

 

[el murdoque]

I usually go for the cheapest they have with Neutrik jacks.
Or for the Fender custom Shop ones because they look cool.

My main instrument cable has been a Vovox for many years (15+). My reasoning when I bought it was as follows:
1. I bought it off ebay (from a guy who sold a PRS custom and a vintage Marshall halfstack at the same time), second hand for 60 bucks, not the 150 Vovox is asking for a new one
2. I kept loosing cables. Around 2 years was the average span a cable stayed with me.
3. Given that I'll watch the Vovox way better than I'd watch a $20 cable, I'd need to have it for 6 years to break even.
4. Having it for longer than that, I've actually saved money (applying this logic).

The tonal difference between the Vovox and any other halfway decent cable I ever tried is non existent.