HF losses in guitar cables now being sold as a tone control

[mario_farufyno]

Mind you, the low-pass filters give us the same HF losses, though in a more controlable fashion.

Yeah but do the filters give you that unpredictable crackling noise and German radio stations and taxi radios during a rehearsal?

You just have to find a way to incorporate the radio stations and taxi radios into the performance. I saw Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on an afternoon bill with Miles Davis in the headlining slot at the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival. The 69 festival had the biggest crowds to date due to the inclusion of a few rock bands so there were 40,000 people at, or in the vicinity of, the festival. Frank had written music especially for the festival and had a CB radio tuned to the police channel (which was getting a ton of activity due to the huge crowds) and patched into the PA so random bursts of police communications would come blaring out of the PA while they were playing. Great show.

They could brand it as the "John Cage's Cable", after the minimalist composer who incorporated chance in music making and wrote "Landscapes" for twelve radio receivers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage

[mario_farufyno]

You just have to find a way to incorporate the radio stations and taxi radios into the performance. I saw Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on an afternoon bill with Miles Davis in the headlining slot at the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival. The 69 festival had the biggest crowds to date due to the inclusion of a few rock bands so there were 40,000 people at, or in the vicinity of, the festival. Frank had written music especially for the festival and had a CB radio tuned to the police channel (which was getting a ton of activity due to the huge crowds) and patched into the PA so random bursts of police communications would come blaring out of the PA while they were playing. Great show.

Wow, that is a night to remember, indeed!

[cozmik_cowboy]

OTOH, I still have an orange coiled cable from the early 70s that is an utter POC. It's just cool looking. The outer covering is some kind of vinyl.

Based on my experience with using vinyl vs. rubber cables fresh off an unheated equipment truck; that one may have started life straight & kept the kinks from being in the cable trunk........

Peter