The Steel Guitar Forum

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>It's not the impedance you have to worry about.
Capacitance is the major concern.</SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Capacitance is part of impedance.

Any cable has a ratio of coil type impedance like a transformer, and capacitance,
caused by wire proximity and sheilding issues.

Two poorly sheilded wires in close proximity will, depending on signal level and frequency, have greater or lesser degress of each phenominon.

In an intrument with good highs and also lows like a steel, you want a balance of the two, by a construction that limits the negative effects of either electronic function of wire, in the effective bandwidth of that instrument signal over the specific length of the wire.

Very long cables have more problems, since there is more effective area to run the signal and cause interaction between the 2 or 3 wires inside it.

Since guitars and such are pretty low output these effects can be much stronger. Since there is little signal to overcome the effects, or an active circuit to make adjustments.
And therefor more negative to your sound.

Ref. Impedance.
Your dead right Jay.- I should have written Capacitance.- Apologies.

I use the thin Georges, and before I did I went into a friend's studio and tested several. They were the quietest. I have always thought that it's the small amount of surface area of the outside "ground" wire web. Especially for 'picking up interference'. I used 30 footers for plugging in direct with an unbalanced signal, and they seemed to work just fine.

I'd like to see a similarly "fixable and cuttable" mike chord come out.

The George L's make me sound Just Like Lloyd Green ( until somebody else comes into the room... )

EJL

Kevin, I could just phone Billy and Wanda, but I love to go visit; they are wonderful and I wished they lived next door to me. Not only that; I like to shop there for CDs and accessories etc. These cables have made a lot of difference; I love my Emmons.