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Custom made for you!

Neutrik plugs (above)
G&H plugs (not shown)

- Extremely Rugged
- Great Tone

Choose your cable, length,
plugs and configuration.
Easy!

Order Forms - Choose your Cable:
Canare	Stompin Pro
George L's	VTG Concert
Mogami
Also see: Cable specs

Beauty is in the details
We have completed numerous hours testing many quality cables for the best electrical properties, physical construction and sound quality, among other criteria. We will be offering two new product lines for cables, pedalboard patch cables and instrument cables. For our custom instrument cables, we will use Neutrik plugs and the cable and length of your choice. See the following for more details and below for prices. You will end up with an excellent cable at a nice price by choosing any of the cables listed.

Plugs: Your choice! We offer Neutrik's professional C series with a chuck style strain relief and rubber boot or G&H's famous Copper Core technology with a dual over/under shrink tube strain relief. Note: We do not recommend gold plated plugs as they are just for looks. All gold plated instrument plugs are chrome plated underneath the gold so the gold adheres well and looks shiny. Technically that extra layer just colors your tone. It's all cosmetic.

Cable: You are able to choose from any of the cables listed. They are (in alphabetical order) Canare GS-6, George L's 225, Mogami 2524, Stompin Pro and VTG Concert.

Features & Benefits:

• Highly accurate and transparent
• Wide dynamic range
• Low capacitance
• Low handling noise
• Extra-flexible
• Polyethylene dielectric
• Full shielding
• Durable pro quality

The best electrical properties, physical construction and sound quality!

Brand	Diameter	Conductors	Shield	Insulation	Jacket	Capacitance	Resistance
Canare GS-6 Japan	.228"	18 AWG - Copper	92% Copper Braid + Carbon Sleeve	Polyethylene	Flexible PVC, Black	49 pF/ft @ 1kHz	5.6 ohms / 1000 ft.
George L's 225 USA	.225"			Polyethylene
Mogami 2524 Japan	.236"	20 AWG - Copper	95% Copper Serve (very flexible) + Carbon Sleeve	Polyethylene	Flexible PVC, Black	39.7 pF/ft @ 1kHz	10 ohms / 1000 ft.
Stompin Proprietary USA	.242"	22 AWG - Copper	95% Copper Braid	Gas Injected Polyethylene	Flexible Matte PVC, Black	17 pF/ft @ 1kHz	15.3 ohms / 1000 ft.
VTG Concert USA	.242"	20 AWG - Copper	90% Copper Braid + Carbon Sleeve	Polyethylene	Flexible Matte PVC, Black	35 pF/ft @ 1kHz	10.7 ohms / 1000 ft.

Cable Notes: This is based on Stompin-Ground's experience, observation and testing of many cable over the years. Your results may vary. Cables have a lot of mysticism, voodoo and hype surrounding them. Let's try to get real here. Capacitance is probably the most influential factor on the sound of an instrument cable. This is particularly true for passive, non-buffered, guitar signals. Active or buffered signals are influenced by capacitance to a lessor degree. You can also have much longer cable runs in a buffered system whereas you probably will want to keep cable lengths down in a non-buffered system. Resistance has less influence for instrument cables due to an instrument's very low voltage and amperage. It is a greater factor when selecting a speaker cable as the current requirements are much higher. Wire Size (AWG): The smaller the AWG number is, the larger the diameter of the conductor. It's not such a factor on sound but more for physical strength. An AWG of greater than 24 may not be suitable for a long lasting cable that gets plugged into your guitar and gets pulled and abused more than other cables. An 18 AWG size is very strong. You might note however that the capacitance is usually higher for larger cables and lower for small AWG sizes. Pedalboard cables, back line cables and other patch cables are typically fine using smaller 20-25 AWG sizes that also yield a lower capacitance. Your main cable that plugs into your instrument may benefit from a larger 18-22 AWG size for it's strength. More to come...

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