It's 6:26 AM as I start this post. I had a little indigestion tonight and had a hard time sleeping. What do you do when you can't sleep? I dunno. I turned on the computer, poked around YouTube, and stumbled on a good video.
I've talked for years about the resonant peak and filtering inherent in various guitar components, including cables, and compared the effect to a low pass filter on a synthesizer with a resonance control creating a resonant peak.
A cable manufacturer asked Pete Thorn to do a cable comparison. He did one, and I'm about to link it.
I don't use the cables he compared (though I have tried Monster and Belden), I have no dog in this hunt.
Anyway, I watched the video, and Lo and behold, Pete explains, yes, resonant peaks and capacitance and filtering and all that, and he describes it better than me, and goes on to record some back to back to back comparisons with both clean and dirty tones.
Of course, everyone knows I'm full of crap and blah blah, and cables don't matter, but in point of fact they really do matter - everything matters.
Beyond that, they matter demonstrably.
For full disclosure, I use two kinds of guitar cable: Van Damme, the stuff PRS uses in their signature cables, and Sommer's lowest capacitance cable, which is a little stiffer than the Van Damme, but has a bit lower capacitance, so a tiny bit more high end comes through - but at the expense of flexibility. I'm happy with both brands, and use both for various purposes and reasons. I have never tried the Cordial cables he used in this comparison.
Enjoy the video, you'll learn stuff and might be surprised when you listen!
I've talked for years about the resonant peak and filtering inherent in various guitar components, including cables, and compared the effect to a low pass filter on a synthesizer with a resonance control creating a resonant peak.
A cable manufacturer asked Pete Thorn to do a cable comparison. He did one, and I'm about to link it.
I don't use the cables he compared (though I have tried Monster and Belden), I have no dog in this hunt.
Anyway, I watched the video, and Lo and behold, Pete explains, yes, resonant peaks and capacitance and filtering and all that, and he describes it better than me, and goes on to record some back to back to back comparisons with both clean and dirty tones.
Of course, everyone knows I'm full of crap and blah blah, and cables don't matter, but in point of fact they really do matter - everything matters.
Beyond that, they matter demonstrably.
For full disclosure, I use two kinds of guitar cable: Van Damme, the stuff PRS uses in their signature cables, and Sommer's lowest capacitance cable, which is a little stiffer than the Van Damme, but has a bit lower capacitance, so a tiny bit more high end comes through - but at the expense of flexibility. I'm happy with both brands, and use both for various purposes and reasons. I have never tried the Cordial cables he used in this comparison.
Enjoy the video, you'll learn stuff and might be surprised when you listen!