Coiled guitar cables?

[rabbit]

My coily cable is an ORANGE Lava brand.

Suits me more for its color than its sound.

Heavy and good for fending off the the raving groupies.
Waiting to prove that theory.

[nopedals]

Anyone old enough to remember coiled cabled won't hear the frequencies rolled off.

Seriously, rolling back the tone control on the guitar and boosting the midrange is something I do anyway.

[Danny W.]

Circa 1969-'70:



Danny W.

[citizenk74]

Circa 1969-'70:



Danny W.

Nice Jaguar! An inexplicably under-appreciated guitar. Mine is a '64 and is earmarked for one of the great-grandchildren.

[Durban]

I use Oxygen Free coiled cables with Gold Connector's with my Oil Can Guitar,


Elvis Presely adored them

[Durban]

Presely spelt incorrectly to avoid blasphemy issues

[rabbit]

Newly available from Fender:

Fender Hendrix Voodoo Child™ Cable, Purple

[KirkP]

Any audio cable used for musical instruments can be accurately modeled as an R/C circuit. The effect is similar to an old fashioned treble control. But when you rotate a treble pot you only vary R. Since changing the length or design of a coax cable also affects C, you might end up some more dramatic effects in tone.

For extremely long audio cables (like 2000 feet) the R/C model begins to fail and one must use a transmission line model. That was an issue for analog telephone systems, but doesn’t apply here.

Here’s the technical analysis:
http://audiosystemsgroup.com/TransLines-LowFreq.pdf
His conclusion: “Thus, at audio frequencies, a cable less than 2,000 ft long is no more complicated than its series resistance and parallel capacitance. As the cable becomes longer, or as frequency increases, the cable will begin to behave as a transmission line.”