Silly Silly Cable Q.

[chicago_mike]

Okay, in the vid's that Marcus did for his swr preamp, theres a really cool looking cable, anybody know who makes it?

Curious and bored..

 

[TrooperFarva]

Sorry, I don't have an answer for the cable, but I do have a comment on the video, after watching it for the first time just now

Marcus says

"On some of your amps you may have seen one input is an active bass, and one's for passive, but this is not an amp, this is a preamp, and on the preamp, they're both the same"

That has to be one of the stupidest things I've heard recently. :scowl:

 

[Jaydin Nathan]

Looks to be either one of these two (or a combination):
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[bongomania]

I think what he meant to say was...

If that's what he meant to say then he should have said that.

 

[Jaydin Nathan]

Yeh, I watched it again, and realised Trooper was right. I don't know why he would say that :S, makes me worry...

 

[chicago_mike]

Ahh...fender platinum cables...

the angle connector looks funky though.

And this is not an amp, this is a preamp? Well, remember when you were a kid and you could tune out what adults would say?

 

[JimmyM]

What I'd like to know is why we even have to bother with a padded input for active basses. I've used both active and passive basses of many kinds, and never used an active input or pad because the only thing they do is cut output. I can do that with a knob. If you need to use the active input, IMHO you're putting way too much boost on it.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

What I'd like to know is why we even have to bother with a padded input for active basses.

Technically speaking a well done pre would have different input impedances on the two, to better match the high output impedance of passives versus the low impedance output of actives. I doubt that's the case most of the time. A simple pad down would be intended for those who run their instrument volume controls in one position: full. In that case better to have the option and not need it than the other way around.

 

[JimmyM]

Technically speaking a well done pre would have different input impedances on the two, to better match the high output impedance of passives versus the low impedance output of actives. I doubt that's the case most of the time. A simple pad down would be intended for those who run their instrument volume controls in one position: full. In that case better to have the option and not need it than the other way around.

Fair enough. I've never needed it but I guess I'm not everybody. I should be, though

 

[chicago_mike]

Yeah, most pads are a resistor to ground! No transformers in sight....

 

[Sean S]

I guess I'm not everybody.

Thank goodness for that