Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: indysmith on December 24, 2006, 08:39:36 PM
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Just a quick one...
What's the difference and how do you tell? apparently yu shouldn't use them to do each other's jobs... why is this - is it dangerous to the equipment or just the tone? - if a signal only flows one way through a cable does that mean that it's a speaker cable?
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guitar leads have one 'core' plus a 'shield' (hence it being called shielded single-core cable). The shield wraps around the core and is grounded so any noise interference is (hopefully) passed to ground.
speaker cable is twin core and has no shielding - it will sound noisy if used as a guitar lead.
does that help?
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You can damage your amp (especially the transformers if you use a guitar lead for speaker cable). Also try and afford the best cables you can...they really do make a tonal difference.
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plus speaker cable can handle higher load so if you use a attenuator box of any kind or play with or your amp wound up & use instrument cable you will burn something out either your cable if your lucky or your amps transformer if your not. :cry: