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Re: Nord- Best cables for live sound

Postby JayDee » 01 May 2018, 17:01

As a guitar player also, I can tell you cables can make a fairly dramatic difference for that instrument. Often characterized by a loss of treble especially on longer runs (which is why guys will use a buffered signal). My keyboards with a robust low imp. signal, not so much.
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Re: Nord- Best cables for live sound

Postby st2ex » 01 May 2018, 23:03

And during this correction the converters loos parts of their converter linearity, what reduces e.g. stereo resolution.
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Re: Nord- Best cables for live sound

Postby GeeDeWee » 08 May 2018, 09:43

I always assumed that cables should have a low capacity, as high capacity cable acts like a low pass filter resulting in loss of treble.
But reading this thread, that's not so much the case with keyboards? (with for instance 6 meters of cable)

The Klotz KM Pro 600 double mono cable looks ideal (capacity of 130 pF/m)
https://shop.klotz-ais.com/6275-keymaster-pr.html

Is the Cordial SCI 6 PR-175 with a capacity of 88 pF/m 'better'?
https://www.thomann.de/gb/cordial_csi_6 ... earch_prv_
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Re: Nord- Best cables for live sound

Postby Quai34 » 08 May 2018, 10:09

I think I have used Mogami 3368 when I had made my custom guitar pedalboard patch cables, the inductance was 73? pF...
But for keys, I have used the Yorkville one, lifetime warranty, even if you abuse them, they change it here in Canada.

For studio, I have bought some planet wave studio snake but also Seismic audio cables after having read good reviews from people who were using them live so, for fixed installation, I assumed they could do a good job and they are....
So, no stress on cables for keys, completely different from guitars....
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Re: Nord- Best cables for live sound

Postby keysmcgee » 08 May 2018, 20:03

GeeDeWee wrote:I always assumed that cables should have a low capacity, as high capacity cable acts like a low pass filter resulting in loss of treble.
But reading this thread, that's not so much the case with keyboards? (with for instance 6 meters of cable)


Correct, but the knee of the LPF depends on the output impedance of the source. Sources with low output impedance (active devices such as keyboards) will push the LPF to higher frequencies where it is less likely to be an issue.

Sources with high output impedance (passive electric guitars, Rhodes pianos without preamps, etc) will have a lower knee frequency for the LPF; this could result in loss of HF depending on the exact output impedance and cable capacitance.
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Re: Nord- Best cables for live sound

Postby Ceyhan » 20 May 2018, 18:39

I use Planet Waves PW-AMSGRA-20 American Stage, I had no problems for more than a year, clean sound without any hissing or noise.
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