Righto, in the market for a whole new wiring of the pedalboard.
I'm not averse to spending a bit on patch cables, as I aim to order my board differently/neater and will need some made up to specific lengths.
I'm looking on designacable and there are only a couple patch cables I can see so far. Either pancake jacks or neutrik with either sommer or van damme cable.
I currently use fender custom shop tweed patch cables, and soundwise they are fine, pickup no noise etc, but they are thick as hell and don't bend well or allow for tight turns.
So I'll need something more bendy, thinner perhaps, but is that more likely to pick up unwanted noise in the system?
I'm interested in the Van Damme XKE cable. I presume its the exact same cable thickness etc that is used for both patch leads and guitar leads?
As I see you can specify whatever length, and this cable comes up under both instrument leads and patch cable sections on the site, it made me wonder.
These are the options I can see under patch cables:
In the description of this one It says the cable is flexible and can be bent at 90 degree angles.. it doesnt state that in the others below it.. so Is it the same van damme cable ya think?
Or
Or either of these 2.
This one is the cable that comes under both patch and guitar leads.
So it would be ideal as I could order a bunch of them in varying lengths + use one as my guitar leads from Guitar to pedal board and from pedalboard to amp.
Or do the actual guitar leads need to be thicker? Me no no.
Im leaning toward the neutrik jacks, as I'm not sure the pancake ones will fit next to each other in certain pedals (looper). I'll have to ask em to make me up some with right angle to right angle though, as they arent shown..
any thoughts welcome!
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Thinking about it, I couldn't get the Warwick jacks to go into the input socket of my Subdecay pedal so I had to use a home-made cable with full-size angled jacks.
If I remember right, the test where they were noisy was when they we're being physically moved/hit ... which doesn't happen on a pedalboard - not on my pedalboard anyway.
Those square pancake jacks would probably work in most of those circumstances but they're expensive and harder to find.
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Will see what happens. £60 odd they cost with delivs