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indysmith

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Speaker Cable or Guitar Cable
« on: December 24, 2006, 08:39:36 PM »
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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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2006, 09:25:07 PM »
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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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2006, 10:17:51 PM »
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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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2006, 11:06:37 PM »
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:
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