guitar cable

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For recording, how long does guitar cable have to get before I should
start thinking about direct boxes and XLRs?

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Danny wrote:
>
> having said that, I have a stack of 20 and 25 foot chords.

Major or minor?

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Mike Rivers wrote:

> In article <e6236419.0408211332.6517bbac@posting.google.com> ot7doc@yahoo.com writes:
>
> > For recording, how long does guitar cable have to get before I should
> > start thinking about direct boxes and XLRs?
>
> Long enough to reach from the shower to the guitar.
>

LMAO !

Graham.


p.s. there should be some issues involved in operating electrical equipment that close to
a bath / shower.

The OP should consider investing in an ELCB/RCCD device or whatever you normally call
them in the USA.

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Mike Rivers wrote:

> In article <e6236419.0408211332.6517bbac@posting.google.com> ot7doc@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
>>For recording, how long does guitar cable have to get before I should
>>start thinking about direct boxes and XLRs?
>
>
> Long enough to reach from the shower to the guitar.
>
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Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>p.s. there should be some issues involved in operating electrical equipment that close to
>a bath / shower.
>
>The OP should consider investing in an ELCB/RCCD device or whatever you normally call
>them in the USA.

Or a pignose! Sounds really good! Won't hurt you if it falls in the tub!
Probably will even keep working if it falls in the tub.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Nat wrote:

>For recording, how long does guitar cable have to get before I should
>start thinking about direct boxes and XLRs?

It's not like there is a length where it's suddenly too long. Whether
recording or otherwise performing, the answer is when your ears tell you
that the cable length is resulting in unacceptible high frequency loss.

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In article <1giz1vc.10coooyakfb8gN%walkinay@thegrid.net>,
walkinay@thegrid.net (hank alrich) wrote:

> Logan Shaw <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.comedy> wrote:
>
> > Kurt Albershardt wrote:
>
> > > Danny wrote:
>
> > >> having said that, I have a stack of 20 and 25 foot chords.
>
> > > Major or minor?
>
> > Major, obviously. A 25 foot pipe and a 20 foot pipe would produce
> > a major third. Although it'd be a pretty low-pitched one...
>
> You'd need pretty big lungs to work a pipe that long.
>
> --
> ha

It took a crew of 3 to work our 14 foot pvc bong in college
george

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Scott Dorsey wrote:


> Probably will even keep working if it falls in the tub.


Wow! I'll try that!

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Raymond <bruwhaha58097238@aol.com> wrote:
>>Nat wrote:
>>
>>>For recording, how long does guitar cable have to get before I should
>>>start thinking about direct boxes and XLRs?
>
>I'm just asking, but have you not tryed pluging into a guitar amp and sticking
>a mic in front of it?

The problem is that sometimes you don't want to be right in front of the
amp when you're doing that. Sometimes you have a guy with some massive
Marshall stack and you want it in another room altogether from the performer
just so he doesn't destroy his hearing. This means long cables.
A shame the Les Paul Recording pickups never caught on.
--scott
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> > >I'm just asking, but have you not tryed pluging into a guitar amp and sticking
> > >a mic in front of it?
> >
> > The problem is that sometimes you don't want to be right in front of the
> > amp when you're doing that. Sometimes you have a guy with some massive
> > Marshall stack and you want it in another room altogether from the performer
> > just so he doesn't destroy his hearing. This means long cables.
> > A shame the Les Paul Recording pickups never caught on.

I've historically kept the amp in the same room I'm in, but monitoring
like that is a pain. I've actually worn earplugs under my headphones,
and that's no fun.