Straight jack -vs Strat jack

[SamanthaCay]

I don't know anybody who picks way out at the tip of the lower horn, but the PG goes all the way out there on most basses. Bad design also?

No it's a great design because a lot of people think it looks good.

 

[walterw]

right angle plugs only, and always looped through the strap! a straight plug is just excess stress on the jack, and a big target for getting bent over. i don't have anything with angled strat-type output jacks, and don't like how you can't pull the cable out without pulling on the cable itself rather than the plug end.

as far as i can tell, straight plugs are used mostly by people who don't know the difference or just never thought about it.

that pickguard-mounted jack is kinda the only real "design flaw" of the P-bass, and a right-angle plug fed through the strap is the only safe way of using it.

 

[walterw]

GG is a monster, but this is pretty funny, and shows the problem with this design:

If I was designing an instrument, I would do what the folks at charvel did for Guthrie Govan's guitar: side mounted strat type plug. Goes up to your strap loop and doesn't get in the way of your leg when sitting down. You can sorta see it here:

he forgot to loop it through the strap!

now there's a whole bunch of sideways stress on the cable, the plug and the jack

 

[mrbell321]

Can I suggest a clarification here?
I've seen "90-degree" used in 2 different(opposite, actually) ways and it's not always clear what you mean or talking about.
A cable can have a 90-degree angle to it or straight(180 degree, if you prefer).
A jack can be face mounted and perpendicular (a la P-bass) or not(a la strat).
A jack can also be side mounted and perpendicular (a la Ric) or not(a la the Charvel Guthrie).
I only say this because the OP SEEMED to use 90-degree to mean face-perpendicular and the first post SEEMED to do the opposite, but I'm not sure...