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Post by pcns on May 14, 2022 20:21:11 GMT -7
Sorry everyone, I'm a little leat with the reminder to clean your cables. Twice a year min will keep you trouble free. Do it at the time changes. My youngest son Joshua was complaining how his tone lost its sparkle. We pull appart his pedal board and cleaned every cable with a good electronic cleaner and them used of the cables to clean all the Jack's on each pedal. You get the plug wet with cleaner and then inserts a couple of times in each jack and the wipe the plug clean and move onto the next. When we finished Joshua plugged in his set up (with my Therapy) He jumped it was so much louder! He rolled the master volume from noon back to 10 o'clock. That's a huge difference and it completely fixed his tone issue. Don't forget to do your power supply cables too.
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Post by helmi on May 15, 2022 13:50:46 GMT -7
Can we send them to you and have you clean them since your the expert? lol
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Post by adam on May 15, 2022 14:47:05 GMT -7
To add to that, maybe check your cables once in a while. I had an issue quite a few years ago messing with the synergy stuff with a pedal board and was getting all kinds of noise which I thought was the synergy stuff, and I bought one of those fancy gates which uses your initial guitar signal as the key to the gate, and the gate goes in the loop of that amp. But, I always had some kind of noise problem seemingly no matter which pedal board I was messing with. Even bought a voodoo labs pedal board with a loop switcher and that didn't work.
One day decided to really hunt down what the issue was and it was a decent pro-co cable causing the problem all along. Depending on how the cable was laying on the floor, it would create all kinds of noise. Felt pretty stupid that I missed that as a potential problem.
Also a long time ago the bassist on the gig couldn't figure out what his sound was so bad and he struggled through it all night, and that turned out to be a cable too.
Lastly, I had a full tone cable that I used for a long time and the sound would cut out for a second when I would turn around and I couldn't figure out what that was. I thought it had something to do with the proximity or angle of me to the amp and some weird voodoo or something, but it just turned out to be a bad cable too. I guess the point being that the most simple thing in the whole setup can be the one thing which causes the whole problem.
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Post by daddyelmis (Greg) on May 15, 2022 16:22:31 GMT -7
Great reminder, Todd. As Adam also mentioned, going through to clean your cables lets you also verify connections, input jacks, etc. We had a crackling in the PA and my guitar seemed to be culprit, and after a ton of cleaning and troubleshooting my rig it turns out it was the XLR input to one of the Mackie subs.
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Post by pcns on May 15, 2022 19:48:44 GMT -7
I've said this before . . . a lot of people spend thousands of dollars on their guitars and amps and the go buy the cheapest cables they can find. Never made sense to me
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Post by doctorice on May 16, 2022 4:39:37 GMT -7
Thanks for the reminder, Todd.
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Post by zpilot on May 16, 2022 13:56:26 GMT -7
I've said this before . . . a lot of people spend thousands of dollars on their guitars and amps and the go buy the cheapest cables they can find. Never made sense to me Yep. I remember an ad I saw in Guitar Player Magazine many years ago. I believe it was for Monster Cables when they first appeared. It went something like " $600 guitar, $1000 amp.....and 10 bucks for a cable to connect them ". You can tell it was a LONG time ago.
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