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Topic: Don't Step On My Guitar Cables! |
Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 9:35 am |
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Is that asking too much?  |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 10:17 am
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Quit laying 'em on the floor.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Malcolm McMaster
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Beith Ayrshire Scotland
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 10:46 am
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What do you suggest Lane building Pylons,  would love to know how you get your cables to amp/speaker without being on floor ?
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MSA Millenium SD10, GK MB200, Sica 12inch cab, Joyo American Sound Pedal/ Jay Ganz Straight Ahead amp, Telonics 15inch in Peavey cab, Digitech RP150, Peterson tuner.Hilton volume pedal.Scott Dixon seat and guitar flight case. |
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Scott Duckworth
From:
Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 10:48 am
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Go wireless... audience, can you hear me now?
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Amateur Radio Operator NA4IT (Extra)
http://www.qsl.net/na4it
I may, in fact, be nuts. However, I am screwed onto the right bolt... Jesus! |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 10:48 am
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| What do you suggest Lane building Pylons, would love to know how you get your cables to amp/speaker without being on floor ? |
Have the guitar player hold them up off the floor. That way he won't have any hands free to OVER play his guitar at excruciating volumes.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Bill Duncan
From:
Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 10:48 am
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Sounds like a job for Bluetooth.
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You can observe a lot just by looking |
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 10:49 am
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Leave it to a Scotsman to focus on the engineering and and miss the joke.
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Malcolm McMaster
From:
Beith Ayrshire Scotland
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 11:30 am
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Actually ,think Richard has best suggestion.Did not fancy getting to gig hours early to build pylons and have to carry all that metal.Any more renovations just give us "master engineers " a call and we will keep you right Lane 
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MSA Millenium SD10, GK MB200, Sica 12inch cab, Joyo American Sound Pedal/ Jay Ganz Straight Ahead amp, Telonics 15inch in Peavey cab, Digitech RP150, Peterson tuner.Hilton volume pedal.Scott Dixon seat and guitar flight case. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 11:38 am
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Malcolm McMaster
From:
Beith Ayrshire Scotland
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 12:01 pm
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Lane this is our other national drink IRN BRU,made from girders in Scotland, we are a hardy lot.Two or three of these and no one would dare stand on your cables.
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MSA Millenium SD10, GK MB200, Sica 12inch cab, Joyo American Sound Pedal/ Jay Ganz Straight Ahead amp, Telonics 15inch in Peavey cab, Digitech RP150, Peterson tuner.Hilton volume pedal.Scott Dixon seat and guitar flight case. |
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Craig Baker
From:
Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 1:02 pm
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Here's an idea that may be helpful:
If there is ever a serious steel guitar convention, rather than just a huge concert, perhaps the manufacturers could get together and brainstorm, and agree to locate the output jack on every steel guitar underneath the guitar facing down. This would avoid damage to a Boss Tone, or any other device that may be in harm's way.
Sincerely,
Craig Baker 706-485-8792
cmbakerelectronics@gmail.com
C.M. Baker Electronics
P.O. Box 3965
Eatonton, GA 31024 |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 4:03 pm
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I couldn't care less if somebody steps on 'em. Now, tripping over them, well...that's a different matter.  |
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2013 4:09 pm
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Hell, I trip over MY OWN!
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LeGrande II, Nash. 112, Fender Twin Tone Master, Session 400, Harlow Dobro, R.Q.Jones Dobro |
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Tim Whitlock
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2013 10:19 am
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Aggravating - yes absolutely. Our guitar player kicked my effects power supply out twice in 10 minutes. The solution is so obvious no one has mentioned it:
Duct tape. And by that I mean tape the guitar player's ankles together. |
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Jack Ritter
From:
Enid, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2013 2:05 pm
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Any one step on mine, I will damn sure jump their a$$, don't care who they are or think they are. Ain't no need in it. Very impolite. Jack
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Zum D10 8x5,rev pre-amp, TC M300, Split 12, n-112, IZZY, Hilton vp, Geo L, BJS Hughey, Live Steel |
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Ben Feher
From:
Austin TX
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Posted 29 Oct 2013 2:35 pm
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| YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 29 Oct 2013 5:24 pm
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How do they make beer out girdles?  |
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Len Amaral
From:
Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 29 Oct 2013 5:26 pm
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Sorry ...double post 
Last edited by Len Amaral on 29 Oct 2013 6:45 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Dennis Detweiler
From:
Solon, Iowa, US
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Posted 29 Oct 2013 6:13 pm
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I don't mind if someone walks on them as long as they pick up their feet. Spilling a drink on them, not good.
Tear jerking mystery flatulence on stage is rude and the nearest dancers always get the blame. No one on stage takes the credit.
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1976 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics 427 pickup, 1975 Birdseye U-12 MSA with Telonics X-12 pickup, Revelation preamp, Carbon Copy Delay and Hall Of Fame Reverb, Crown XLS 1002, 2- 15" Eminence Wheelhouse speakers, ShoBud Pedal, Effects Pedals. 1949 Epiphone D-8. |
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Jim Eller
From:
Kodak, TN (Michigan transplant)
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Posted 30 Oct 2013 2:50 pm
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This is what I use. Soft, cheap and easy to use.
Just a piece of pipe insulation.
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Greg Johnson
From:
Greencastle, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2013 10:22 am
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Jim, that's way to organized. It's not a stage without spaghetti on the floor for those not sitting to trip on 
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MSA CLassic SD-10
92 Emmons LII
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Quilter TT
Evans FET 500
Fender Twin 65 RI
American Takimine |
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Steve Collins
From:
Alaska, USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2013 12:07 pm
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| The only thing that is worse than people treading all over my cables are the ones who use duct tape or electrical tape or some other gooey crap on them. Drives me nuts. |
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MIchael Bean
From:
North Of Boston
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Posted 4 Nov 2013 7:59 am
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Just last night I played a gig, was in the bathroom during break, when I heard a loud buzzing sound that went through the PA. I thought to myself, "I hope that's not my rig". I went out and the band leader said he had to turn my Fishman amp off because it was making noise (I was playing dobro). I looked down at my pedal board and my output cable was unplugged from the Baggs Para DI, and the cable in question was 2 inches from the band leader's foot. I simply requested that he not step on my cables and that will help eliminate those sounds.
Another time years ago, my drummer's buddy came up on the stage at the break to talk to the drummer, and stepped on my cable that was plugged into the input jack of my Ibanez UE405 multi-effects, breaking the plastic PC board-mounted jack. I was infuriated and yelled at them both, telling the drummer not to let his friends up on the stage at any time.
In this same band was the lead singer who owned the PA and would simply grab his cables in a ball and throw them into a milk crate. At the next gig he would just yank random cables from the crate, hoping they would loosen from the ball of wire spaghetti. Inevitably, he would ask me to repair his cables, and I would have to tell him to start taking better care of the cables and this wouldn't happen. |
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