Bout to buy some low capacitance guitar cable

[Andrew Lamprecht]

Re: Bout to buy some low capacitance guitar cable

You could add a tone control between the output jack tip and the output lug on your volume control or switch. It will do exactly the same thing. Just use a cable with no significant capacitance (very short ones will work - you basically want the capacitance reading to be a low amount of picofarads - keep in mind the meter's margin of error).

It still sounds like snake oil to me, and a buffered output already does the job. What the buffer does is lower the output impedance, reducing the effect that capacitance in cables would have on higher impedance signals, such as an non-buffered outputs. Also, the capacitance usually only affects really long cables, or coiled cables (the wire length is greater than straight cables of the same "advertised cable length", due to the wire being compressed in a coil), as the cable capacitance will only affect frequencies out of the human hearing range. As the cables get longer, and more capacitance is present, the problem of signal degradation arises.

+1.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Bout to buy some low capacitance guitar cable

I have the components but where could I get the board from?

That's intended for one of those experimental boards that just has holes and copper rings about each hole. You hand-wire the component together on the other side. Usually you try to just solder-bridge two rings, or bridge to a wire. Because you know free-floating hand laid wire sounds much better

For the record, I am not 100% convinced that a load capacitor does literally the same as a right-capacitance cable. There might be more going on in the cable.

 

[Myaccount876]

Re: Bout to buy some low capacitance guitar cable

You don't really even need the board. There are so few parts you could just wire the ends of the components directly to each other. Just isollate/insulate the wires after you are finished, and throw it in an altoids can enclosure.

 

[GilmourD]

Re: Bout to buy some low capacitance guitar cable

I have the components but where could I get the board from?

http://store.generalguitargadgets.com/ic-buffer-kit.html

http://store.generalguitargadgets.com/icbuf-rts-pcb.html

 

[Rockstar216]

Re: Bout to buy some low capacitance guitar cable

That's intended for one of those experimental boards that just has holes and copper rings about each hole. You hand-wire the component together on the other side. Usually you try to just solder-bridge two rings, or bridge to a wire. Because you know free-floating hand laid wire sounds much better

For the record, I am not 100% convinced that a load capacitor does literally the same as a right-capacitance cable. There might be more going on in the cable.

I couldn't tell you one way or the other till I get my hands on both. I see both methods as having pros and cons but might really depend on the pups as to which method works best.