I’m an EE with 49 yrs experience. Dylan is spot on with his explanation of cable characterization - listen to him. To my old ears 1 had better highs, 2 noticeably less so, and 3 & 4 I couldn’t tell. Without hearing a side by side test like this I don’t think the average player would hear the difference. Just plug it in, adjust your tone controls to suit, and go play.

“I don’t know, I think heard a difference between them on my iPhone 7 with only one functioning speaker...” He says as he searches the internet for the right tone wood for his telecaster build.

@JoeKyser

4 жыл бұрын

What you watch and listen to here is so compressed and changed from the original that slight changes won't be heard.

1-3-4-2 The first was the best sound to me, second was right out, three and four were comparable with three being slightly better

@raytorvalds3699

4 жыл бұрын

That is also the ignition order of most 4 cylinder in-line engines lol.

@freddyloesel4372

4 жыл бұрын

same for me

@billdyke9745

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly right. The cheapest was the best and the second one stank.

@drewdavis2392

4 жыл бұрын

Also my preferred ordering for highs and clarity. Interestingly, that doesn't quite line up with the pF/ft metric (or it'd be 3-2-1-4, with a big gap between 3 and 1/4 nearly indistinguishable). So there's something else going on on top of that.

@UmVtCg

4 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't you couldn't hear the difference in an other order if your life depended on it.

I'm in applied electromagnetics class right now and this is giving me flashbacks to Gaussian surfaces, spherical conducting shells, and other irritating stuff like that

Interesting! I was listening with headphones and cables 1 & 4 (Mogami, GLS) seemed the brightest to me. I actually own a GLS 15 foot and a Mogami 10 foot and I can't tell the difference. (Although I have not done a serious listening test) On Darryl Braun's channel when he tested the cables, he found that the more expensive cables introduced less noise. Can you do a similar test to see if it makes a difference? Great stuff! Thanks!

Very cool I've been saving money with GLS cables for year this kinda made me feel warm and cozy inside lol! Great video!👍

Cable #1 had the most definition in highs. Followed by #4. #2 sounded muddy and #3 sounded slightly less muddy. All that being said, I used to match the cable to a particular guitar if I was in a studio. So depending on the part and the guitar, there were times when I would use a darker cable to tame down a guitar if it was too bright. Right tool for the right job, is my motto in most things.

1. Brightest 2. Dullest 3. Brighter than 2 but duller than the rest. 4. Seems similar to 1 but a bit duller. My guess would be: 1.Daddario 2.Mogami (most expensive) 3.GLS 4.Pig Hog I've had good luck with Pig Hog cables recently. Hadnt heard of them until about a year ago. Curious to see where they actually landed.

There is so little difference between them all in sound quality through headphones. Could the difference in price be related to the general structure and durability of the cables? A great sounding cable is no good once it’s broken.

The first cable sounded the clearest,lots of highs.Then 3, 4 and 2. And yes,I've always believed that gold plated cables were gimmicks.Great video.🎸

They should just market the muddy cables as tube like tone.

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@fladification

4 жыл бұрын

The Monster company calls them "bass" cables. LOL!

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

@@fladification LOLS! Bloody clowns!

@PastelComGini

4 жыл бұрын

"Vintage"

@DMSProduktions

4 жыл бұрын

@@PastelComGini LOL!

Regarding WBC-built cable, they charge the same for mogami and Gotham GAC Ultra, which is one of the lowest capacitance cables (well, Sommer aside), so yes, I'm with you when you say that Mogami is really strong in the market department...

"I used to sell cables, I don't anymore" - Glad to hear you've reformed!

I’ve have always had this thought, you confirmed it. I’ve studied electronics and have worked in an electronics factory. I love how you explain things so I can share it with friends that don’t understand the full in and outs of electronics. Thank you for your time.

This makes so much sense. But I wonder about the rate of capacitance loss through different materials at different lengths. For instance, would a low quality cable lose the same amount of tone through capacitance loss as a higher quality cable with a better ratio of wires and optimal braid pattern and better insulation between the wires?

very cool stuff. just ordered a pig hog yesterday. i got nervous when i saw you were testing that cable but i was happily relieved by the end. thanks for making these kinds of vids dyl, ive learned a lot watching your channel.

I wasn't looking at the screen during the cable test and finally looked up on cable three to see when you were changing cables. I couldn't hear the difference at all. I love these type of videos. Thanks for busting guitar myths. Keep it up.

cable 1 sounded brightest, cable 2 sounded dullest , and 3 and 4 about equal and both in between the other two.

@TheBelmontBluesMan

4 жыл бұрын

I heard what you heard.

@MathewCohenProject

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Interesting that the measurement didn't seem to have any correlation...

@finanzist

4 жыл бұрын

+

I manufacture Cables. I guess you could call them, "Boutique" Cables. I was not content with the Cables that were currently on the market so I started designing and manufacturing my own. First of all, they are unidirectional. This just makes electrical engineering sense. The Guitar jacks contains a Dynamic Transference Actuator for clean Ion Control. Every fifth foot of the cable contains an Universal Interference Dampener. Lastly, the Axial Confinement Modulator end contains a Molecular Frequency Transducer. No other brand can even come close. Guitar jacks are solid Rhodium and the outer surface is a Carbon Fiber mesh. The inner 12 layers are a highly protected secret. Prices start at 13,000.00 for a 10 ft cable. add 5,000. for every additional 5 ft of cable. I guarantee you will never buy another brand again, because let's face it, all the other brands are inferior crap.

@GreatWhiteLionSnake

4 жыл бұрын

13000 pesos is pretty cheap

@sergeyromashkin7876

4 жыл бұрын

$13 000 ? W T F

@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286

4 жыл бұрын

@@sergeyromashkin7876 Price is more flexible with a bulk purchase.

@sergeyromashkin7876

4 жыл бұрын

@@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286 I mean that's just an overkill spending $13k on a cable. $20 ones do their job more than adequately.

@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286

4 жыл бұрын

@@sergeyromashkin7876 Uh, you do realize I just made all that stuff up...right?

One thing I might correct about gold vs other materials; on some *very* old things, like 1970's consoles, the use of tin/nickel molex connectors (which in addition were wrong because they were round peg in square hole, with optimistically four points of contact, really sucked for reliability. I'm looking at you MCI. Replacing these with gold square pin molex makes a huge difference. There's no snake oil there - simply the fact that over 40+ years, across thousands of connections in one console, the tin-plated round peg in square hole sucks. But... that isn't about cables I guess, just interconnects in general.

The first cable (GLS) sounded brightest to me through Sennheiser HD600 headphones into a Rupert Neve preamp and an ADI-2 DAC. All the others sounded less bright to varying degrees, number 2 (Pig Hog) seemed the darkest. That said, if I had one of the less bright ones I could easily brighten my sound with my amp's treble knob or outboard EQ. We are not helpless. BTW, I use Evidence Audio cables virtually exclusively and I have no idea what they are actually doing or not doing to the sound. I'm always tweaking EQ and such to my ear, so it doesn't matter much about the cables. If they work fine and don't break, I'm happy. Cheers, Dylan.

This is off the topic is cables, but it is about hearing. Many people gets obsessed about tone, and we talk about gear. But there is one thing we leave out: the human ear. What I perceive as brighter or darker, will impact how I set up my rig. What are your thoughts on this.

To my 59 year old ears on a very average external computer speaker, best to worst was: 1, 4, 3, 2. I thought the #1 had the most clarity of high frequencies, followed by #4, 2 & 3 sounded very similar and I couldn't definitively tell which was better or worse.

I worked at a cable manufacturer in the 2000. it's the capacitance! yes it changes the tone. The rest is durability. The power the capacitance the longer the cord I can make. remember it becomes part of your tone control. If your ten foot cord sounds like you like, get a twenty that ensures the same. I use a 28 foot cable on stage because I worked at a cable factory and could make a free one every week out of whatever came .on the truck.

In order of increasing high-end roll off, I heard it as Cable 1, 3, 4, 2... so unless some other variables changed between the tests, the linear capacitance doesn't seem to be the main operating factor here. I wonder if the real difference is in the connectors?

Love Spectraflex. Cost a little more but complement a nice guitar. Hate stiff cables that have bend memory. Same with test leads and solder iron cables.

I am blind, and most people think that we all have exceptional ears… guess what… It’s not the case!After playing music and being a DJ for so many years, I am glad and sorry I cannot hear any difference between any of these cables… so, I doubt that A bunch of drunk people Will be able to hear any difference in a loud environment like a Bar or a club. All I care about is the quality of construction… I also tend to keep my cables on the shorter side, when playing guitar 10 feet, since I don’t move around much… Also switching to a wireless system to avoid tripping into the cable! Now, a faulty connection, when amplified, can be very disturbing on the ears, drunk or not… when I was 15 and had my first electric guitar, I thought the hum I was hearing was because of a bad cable, I was too stupid back then to know that this was inherent to single coil pickups! Now, in a recording studio, proper wiring quality is definitely required…

Great vids mate! Always love the mythbusting vids. Used cheaper cables for many years, myself. Only ended up switching to the, slightly more expensive, Van Damme/Neutrik custom cables for better durability and colour options, to see what was plugged into what on a dark stage easier :) Never had anything to do with tone!

I remember getting up sold into buying a gold plated Monster Cable in my youth. Still have the cable which is a testament to its durability but I can’t say it sounds better than my other cables.

@ResoBridge

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah they were well made cables but they never specified the capacitance per foot. They even made a 'Jazz' cable which was of course high capacitance.

@nickagervasi

4 жыл бұрын

I actually had a funny experience with a Monster "Rock" cable back in 2004-ish.... I was recording some guitar tracks and started hearing radio stations coming through the cabinet. Swapped to a cheap Rapco Roadhog and it went away. Have never used another Monster cable again. 🤣

A couple quibbles with the explanation: 1. The voltage doesn't matter to the amount of signal lost to capacitance. It's frequency dependent, not voltage dependent. 2. Technically everything from the guitar to the speakers is all one circuit. The cable does connect directly to the guitar, but the reason it matters is because the output impedance of the guitar is high. If you have a high output impedance on a pedal, that will also have a similar effect (except it won't have inductance, so its not a resonant RLC filter, but just an RC low pass).

Wilde Pickups (Bill Lawrence) sells a 12’ cable for $30, 20 picofarad/foot (much lower than any of the tested cables). OR make your own out of Belden 8218 (same cable Wilde uses).

Recently I purchased Mogami and I am pulling my hair trying to find out why every body is praising this cable.

THANKS FOR THIS. :) I have to say, I have made over 4k videos on my channel and the one that gets the MOST heat is the one about CABLES! Not kidding. But it was speaker wires, and people who are purists can be obsessive about wires. It is simple... side by side, electricity is electricity, and snake oil is everywhere in the music world. But of course, quality matters when you want durability. Also, you might get interference if you have super cheap wires with no shielding. But lamp cord will carry the signal just fine, to be honest.

I love telling this story. In 1985 Geno bought a PA head 2 mains and 2 floor monitors. As part of the deal he got them to throw in 4 speaker cables and 2 Mic cables. We still use those very same cables to this day....and they were freebies! These cables have out lasted 5 P.A. Heads. Do You want your cables to last over 30 years? They will if you take care of them. The cable is weakest link in anyone's rig if you don't respect that and take care of them, they will shit on you at the least opportune moment. That's just one reason why I still play with Geno after 20 years, he has respect for his musicians as well as the equipment. I've been in flashier arguably better bands, but what a headache constantly chasing down defective cables and people....pfff anyway...

Video paused...1 > 4 > 3 > 2 brightest to dullest through my speakers. Also...kudos for the top wrapped tail piece. Thanks for this...it was fun to watch. Cheers!

Honestly, if there was difference I couldn’t here it. I’ll bet you pissed off the high end cable snobs. And thank you for doing it. Keep up the good work and stay safe.

@nickagervasi

4 жыл бұрын

I am not a high end cable snob, but I did hear a difference. I even had my eyes closed until I heard a change in tone and then opened again to verify there was actually a change because I have been guilty of hearing with my eyes in the past.

I heard a little difference between 1 and 2, and maybe a little deference between 3 and 4. The guys that play in my garage all agree that there are way more pressing issues. Such as, are the mountains on my beer more blue at 33 degrees than at 35 degrees.

I have been playing guitar since 1963 . The cable does make a difference in tone . That said , it depends on the cable . I have had cheap cables that I loved , and expensive cables that suck . Monster cables seem to hold up , the old coil cables never seemed to last more than a few months . I don't want to mention a lot of brands , but I have an old Fender cheapo cable that I have had for years that still sounds great ! I just had a Monster cable go bad that I have had for 15 years . It sounded great , did tons of gigs , super reliable . It served me well , I usually use 10 or 12 foot cables . Seems like long cables lose tone !

Great video! Learned a bunch. Thanks for making great content Dylan!

For me 4 &1 sounded best in the blind test! I agree that Mogami 2524 Gold is overpriced for its 42pf rating, but if you take a look at Mogami 3368 it has 21 pf rating which in my opinion makes a huge difference. I use this from my guitar to my pedalboard 18ft and it made a huge difference, before I used cheap roland cables they looked good but didnt sound anywhere close to the 3368

It seemed that the first one was the loudest/clearest - which I'm assuming would mean it has the least drop-off and would be therefore the planet waves cable? My guess is 1-3-4-2 from best-to-worst. I guess that would translate into: PW-PIG-GLS-MOG. At the end of the day, they all sounded fine to me. Because you're not every comparing one to another, you make your tone, volume and effect adjustments with the cable you're using and you're good to go. (my thinking anyway) I suppose a studio situation could see some advantage to a marginally clearer signal. Cheers

2 sounded dullest 4 maybe had a low end loss. 1 and 3 were my favs upon 2 quick listens. You should check them with high gain where the noise and those outer frequencies become more exaggerated. Higher gain is where cables become noticeable, mostly for the noise floor and high freq response. Rock!

I recently saw a question and a Facebook guitar group, and the person asked if the price of the cable matters, most told this person that the most expensive cables will sound the best, Thankfully there were some Who were more realistic with their answers. I have been using cheap cables all my life. Thank you for the content, you just save me some cash.

Hard to say which one really sounded better, but if I had to say best to worst it would be 4,1,3, and then 2. Based on the new info about pf and each cable, I'd guess 2 is the most expensive.

Thanks, Dylan! Clear and concise, as always. I’ve been using Pig Hogs for the past few years, and I have no complaints. The variation in sound between those doesn’t strike me as dramatic, so I think I’ll stay on this path. You da man! 🤘🏻👏🏻😎

very informative thanks dillon. been a sub for a couple years and just want to say i really like the content lately.

Thanks nice review! During audio sample I voted for 1, next is 4 and 2&3 is a tie or I have no interest in lol😅. That GLS surprised me, I’ll gonna look for one. However - for my strat which is super sparkly highs (sometimes in a bad way)- I might consider those 2/3 to darken the brittle tone.

Thanks for the information. I was just looking at new guitar cables

I wonder why this myth or true fact is not mentioned. Back in 2004 , i started to play a guitar and asked my friend , who was working on TV and Music studio to get me a cable to hook guitar up to the computer. He cut for me 6m piece of BELDEN Cable . When i stated to solder , i found out that there is a pretty strong cotton rope next to the center core wire. When i asked my friend , why this rope is inside the cable - he told me that all Professional Audiocables that are used on stage have this cotton rope inside in order to help cable to withstand the strong pull. Like you are playing on a guitar and someone steps on your cable and you are doing quick step aside , introducing hard and quick pull of the cable. This pull stretches all non metal components of the cable and, if this cotton rope would not be there , could bring to the cracks and breaks of metal shilding or the core wire. And that is why these pro cables are so expensive . Also another reason is that shielding and core wire are both as much pure cooper as possible without other metal additions, to reduce the overall electric resistance , but the more percentage of cooper you add to the metal the more proned to cracks and breaks it became. So expensive pro cables have a lot of cooper and other high conductive metals in the wire to make them max conductive, and also they have this non-elastic rope next to the core wire , to make the cable more strong and stress-stable.

I’ve always bought moderately priced name brand cables and never noticed a difference until I bought a cheap cable from Guitar Fetish and there was a significant high frequency loss.

I'm old school GLS, got mics & cables that have always worked!

@joehickey1891

3 жыл бұрын

Love my gls 58

Ok, I didn't have any idea what each one costs, I only heard the Mogami name before. My personal preference was: - 1; - 4; - a close 3; -2. Then I see #4 (my personal 2nd place is Mogami, #2 (my outsider) is dirt cheap, and #1 (my personal preference) is obviously GLS.

Differences are subtle but nothing that slight knob tweaking can't fix.

Honestly Bro, No. 1 had the most definition/clarity/balance to my ears, and though i didn't hate the other 3 tones, No.1 was the only tone i would consider using. Having said that, i'd be curious to hear the same shoot-out with a Tele and a Strat. Actually, i was kinda surprised that You Didn't use a single coil guitar for the test, considering You mentioned them in the preamble. Great work as Always Bro!!! Bigtime THX!!! :D :D :D

07/28/20: Hell Dylan, Tom from Orlando Florida. As far as the sound test, for my ears (listening along with my Tinnitus ear ringing ... LOL), they all sounded good, except number # 2 seemed just a little brighter. Check this out ... I got swept up by guitar cable sales pitched too. I bought expensive $100.00 six-foot, gold-tipped, Monster Cables cables about 15-20 years ago, and still use them. They were way much thicker and less flexible than other $10.00 cables. The marketing pitch was they filtered out-static noises, so when playing on a clean amp for clean Jazz, or clean tone Rockockerbilly, etc. there would be no static. I still have my old Ibanez Whoetone amp (no longer in production) 80W, 15" speaker. The speaker was a factory unknown brand. It was good tones at first, but slowly it started to make odd noises. so I upgraded to a 15" Weber Thames Speaker $175.00. Now, it was so much better with crystal clear clean tones. I used my 1994 Fender guitar with up-graded Lace Hot-Gold Pickups ($450.00), which also now had crystal clean tones. So, did I get a better clean tone with the Monster $100.00 Cables? Hell, I don't know, per I never really never heard any static from my amp and guitar after upgrades in the first place. But, for $100.00, I keep using those cables. I take care of my toys - so to speak. The cables look new, except for the gold is slightly dull from putting in/out of amp or guitar. Thanks for this informative video, per I will never waste money again on sales pitches for guitar cables.

I’m getting old and honestly I couldn’t differentiate from one cable to the next.... but thank you for your videos and lessons, I do enjoy them.

Amazing difference of opinions! I noticed a lessening of "edge"/brightness with #4. The rest were similar. Listened through dinky phone speaker w. no headphones. Another amazing thing (to me); I went online early afternoon to check cables on offer from the 'big box' outlets. Timing! lol. 🎵

I did not hear a significant difference between the cables - listening on my headphones. I usually buy the least expensive cables at GC that have a lifetime replacement warranty. My cables rarely go bad, but when one does, I just get it replaced with a brand new one. No soldering!

The only reason that I have a few Mogami cables for my guitar rig (not the patch cables) is because of the lifetime warranty. But after almost 7 years, I’ve had no issues. Not many of my other xlrs or 1/4” cables are still going, even the ones that don’t leave the studio and were never taken on the road like the Mogami cables. Do they sound better? I’ve never heard a difference. They just work. Edit: gotta buy some Dylan cables! Edit 2: I don’t see Dylan cables for sale on his site!

BASS player here, I'm 49 and 30 years later it's all the same !!!! Back then it was Monster but got myself Excalibur cables (extinct company ). Refreshing to have some one with a head on their shoulders !!!

The only real benefit to some more expensive cables is the warranty. All of the crap about oxygen free copper in guitar cables is marketing BS. All copper electrical wire, even the cheapest doorbell wire at home depot, is at least 99.9% pure copper.

the biggest differences i've ever noticed from cables (length-for-length) is shielding capability, i half tuned out for the sound test and i didn't hear any drastic differences (because i have a variety of guitars with different sounds so fine differences don't really mean much to me). i've been using fender cables for a few years now and i think they're great for the price, i haven't taken any readings on them though, however i have a drive pedal on most of the time -with no buffered pedals, just "true bypass" which basically makes the pedals act like another short length of cable :)

all i know is that the mogami cable will coil up perfectly. something to be said for that.

Hi The cable you use depends on what you’re using it for!!! Mogami Platinum (expensive )is the best cable for Lead Distortion Tone I have two separate rigs

Best to worst: 1, 4, 3, 2. #1 sounded nice, had good clarity. #2 was quite muddy, was like some shoved a pillow in front of the speaker.

I make a difference between measuring mfpf and hearing: the ear is the judge and although the difference is very subtle, the #4 sounded good to me…

Still, there is a certain quality of cables that matter. When I worked at intel I learned about a couple who worked there a few years before I was hired. Intel was using gold wires too attach the pins on the back of the chip to the substrate. The problem was that this couple would take small pieces of scrap gold home with them every day. In two years time they had stolen 2,000,000 worth of gold from the company. Intel was later able to build a better processor without golf connector wires. As for stray capacitance, that must be taken into account when your circuit’s function at the point where your capacitor or cable and adjust that point in the circuit to include that capacitor.

@boogieman00001

4 жыл бұрын

Apples and Oranges. In CPU's you are talking about digital signals in the GHz frequency range. At those kinds of frequencies, the smallest of details can sometimes make a big difference. For instrument level audio frequency signals, gold makes absolutely no difference.

I recently bought about 50ft of mogami, but I use it for interconnecting my synthesizer rig. Also, some amps that I have like 100ft cables when they’re cranked. A pignose comes to mind. I’d love another cable!

My main cables for years now have been ones I've made myself from mogami with switchcraft plugs. The main benefit I've seen has been with durability. Those cables have been malfunction free for many many years... Before making those I primarily used planet wave. I've never noticed one over the other sounding better, but my planet waves, or any other cables I used previously never held up over the long term.

After listening twice now, there are very subtle differences between them, but nothing that jumped out as so much better or so much worse. I’ve never been in a studio recording, so don’t know if this would make a difference in that environment, but if you were playing on stage solo, no difference to quality. Clearly a good inexpensive cable like the D’addario is fine and you save a ton of money.

This was fun. Usually I just pay more for a cable in hopes that it will last longer. But it's interesting to think of it as possibly affecting the tone.

I was going with d addario recently anyway. Glad to see they are great quality. Good video.

I like fender professional or deluxe, they’re bright sounding and no to expensive, it’s all personal preference.

Appreciate the myth busting. I started using Livewire cables because they’re inexpensive and guaranteed not to fail for life. I had a livewire speaker cable that failed and Guitar Center replaced it hassle free. After watching this video, I measured the capacitance of one guitar cable and it was 29uf per foot

I could clearly tell each time you switched cables (eyes closed) however, hard to say which was "better". The first one and the last one were definitely similar, and the middle two were definitely similar. I feel like... we should expect "brighter" tones from the lower PF per foot cables, but I actually felt like they sounded darker. That said, I also feel like they had a better sound, but maybe that's just cause I liked the darker less twangy sounded Mogami and GLS. I was def surprised that the "brighter" sounding cables to my ears, actually had the higher PF rating. Go figure!

@ColoradoDreamin

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, as a side note: I had some cables that were very good for clarity (to my ear) but I noticed they were notorious for allowing interference. IE the patch cable would touch a 9 v power cable and you could HEAR it. I tried a bunch of diff patch cables and my favorite was the ernie ball by far compared to the boss, the GLS, and the LiveWire cables I bought.

I heard a difference between the first one and the other three. Two through four there was minimal difference. I personally liked one and three the most but not really enough of a difference for me to spend big bucks on. Thank you for sharing. Stay safe and be blessed

@danszabo5211

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Wallace very much same

It is well known that cables have of one of the highest markups of any product. Consequently, dealers have an incentive to push expensive cables. Sometimes you can hear a difference in cables but this is highly subjective and is highly dependent on the guitar, amp, etc. The more expensive cables are not always better. I have found fifteen dollar cables that I actually liked better than the hundred dollar Mogami.

To my ears, 1 and 3 sounded brightest, with number 1 being " best " . . .

I thought 1 and 4 were the better tone, brighter and clearer with 1 being the best but I'm watching and listening on my Samsung A20e so how much speaker quality plays into this hard to gauge. Reminds me of the serious arguments and entrenched positions several of my friends and myself adopted back in the day regarding vinyl vs CD. I was absolutely convinced that vinyl was/is superior but many friends were equally set on CDs. When you're using the very best equipment you can possibly buy I suspect the difference is so miniscule it truly becomes subjective. I love my music on vinyl and my albums with 12" sleeves that give you the sense of genuinely owning something substantial so I'm sure I went in every time primed 100% to find vinyl superior. My friends convinced of the technology angle, read by laser etc, etc were absolutely sure CD HAD to be better. As I said the difference probably so minute it may well be beyond human hearing to detect. A lot of the time the difference between tones are equally subjective and prone to priming. Funnily enough, my other great lifelong love/passion/obsession is cars and everything to do with modifying and tuning them. I can't think of two seperate pursuits where the snake oil salesman outnumber the actual enthusiasts like guitar gear and car tuning....... K'N Typhoon anyone lol

I've never really paid that much attention to the cable.... thanks for the education. I've learned quite a bit watching your channel in just a short time. much obliged.

I disagree Several there’s other factors not mentioned is noise ratio. I use mogami 2524 cables. I find them better in every way for live and studio. Medium to high gain amps do not need a higher frequency response but a lower noise ratio. mogami are more balanced across frequency spectrum. Volume Let’s just say Fletcher Munson effect lower volumes have different perspectives what sounds better but in a medium to loud environment you want balance. Vertex Effect “the rig doctor” has a great video about this same thing. ✌🏻

I only play with 20 foot cables and because I've got at least one buffer on all the time in my board, I do not really care about loss of treble. It's negligible. Two things are important for me: the cable needs to be durable and it must have at least one angled jack to plug into my guitar...

Another great video, I've learned a lot!

Very cool test... I'm about to buy a cable and I think I'm buying a planet waves...

I believe cable #1 was the one that lost the least amount of highs , so I would guess that cable was the most expensive . Cable #3 was very close in sound to 1 . My guess of most expensive to least is : 1 , 3 , 2 , 4 !

I found from what little differences I could discern that I actually liked the tone of cable 2 the best. Just a little more top end coming through. Having said that, I probably wouldn't notice it in any other forum outside of a cable comparison test.

Number 1 had the clearest tone, not only highs. Sad that you didn't mention the jack quality that will affect the tone as well. This is why you can have a cable with low capacitance but sound dull due to poor jacks.

Great video/awesome channel!!!

I'm not sure which was which. I liked the dynamics of 1 and 4, though 1 was a little too bright. 2 and 3 were a little too muddy.

GREAT VIDEO!!! I've been using the Planet waves and GLD cables for YEARS and they are AWESOME. They take a BEATIN' I use them in my loom and as my Instrument cables and never have they let me down. I keep buying them because they get stolen or I loose them and it's because at their price point I can afford to. LOL Gotta be more disciplined with my cables I know... SMH LOL

1 was clear, on lows, mids, & highs , 2 was a little darker, 3 was about like 2 ,with some slightly brighter highs than 2,, 4 was a bit deep on the highs, and lows sounded a bit muffled. Hey! but, that's just me. Have no idea, which one is the most expensive. Because, I just finished a restoration on an Electra SLM LP style guitar, from the 70's. plugged in with an old home-made cable, that I had gigged with, for some time. Guitar sounded amazing...Next day, I plugged in with an oxygen free, gold plug , high dollar cable , and it sounded like shit. Actually took away sustain and brightness.. Same amp settings, same settings on guitar, -like someone turned the tone to "0 ". Brightness and clarity were gone -Both cables were the same length (15 ft.). .. Go figure! Ya may have to try some different cables, to find the right one. That doesn't mean, they have to be expensive.... I'm using my old cable.

I love having choices but the guitar market is so heavily marketed to, its sometimes hard to see through all the smoke.

No audio quality difference. It's KZread. I used to buy LifeTime guaranteed cables from Guitar Center. Then they changed their guarantee retroactive. Then they stopped carrying them. I recommend a good cable with a good end. I also skip Fender cables.

I know this video was done awhile ago, but I picked 1 & 3 as best sounding, and noticed a big difference between those two and the 2 & 4, which sound a little muddy, and less sparkle? I normally play bass, and when I switched from a cheap guitar cable to a Monster bass cable, I. noticed. a big improvement in sound. Is Monster better than some other alternatives? I don’t know, and maybe just switching from a cheap cable to a better one made a difference, or because the bass cable is made for bass? I’m not sure how it works with bass and the loss of clear low end versus guitar. But I did certainly notice a difference in your demonstration. If it were in a band and in the mix with overdrive, probably could not tell. I bought Monster because they are guaranteed for lifetime replacement. What do you think of Monster cables? Do you think they are worth it?

I thought the first cable sounded best. Highs through lows. Perhaps the deadest sound was the 4th, so perhaps the most expensive. 2 and 3 were pretty even but I think I liked #3 better between the two. Least expensive, hmmm, #1...?

Cable 1 sounds the best to me. The other 3 cables are darker-sounding. The video description says that Cable 1 is the Mogami. I guess you like darker-sounding cables while I like brighter-sounding cables. It seems that most people sounding-off in the comments prefer the Mogami's brightness, too.

I watched on a TV. To me, it looked like 1 was more clear and crispy, 2 was the worst, and 3 and 4 were in the middle.

1 was definitely my favorite, the other 3 I couldn't hear too much of a difference.

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Cable 1 is the Mogami, according to the video description. I like that one most, too. It's the brightest / clearest.

Dylan, I was hoping you would address the type of jack, straight or angled. I have always had failures of cable at the angled jack, and taking them apart I would find that with the angled jack, the pin appears to be riveted to the connector, and the pin would weaken and spin inside the outer connector. Now I only buy cables with 2 straight connectors. I hope that doesn't seem snobbish.

I feel like you got the GLS and Pig Hog rating reversed. The GLS had wayyy more clarity and crispness than the PH. GLS also lists their cable as being 37pf...so more in line with what you stated as a lower value being more detailed. I thought for sure #2 and #4 were the cheaper cables. Amazing what a little education can do. Great vid. Do more cables please.