> From: "Brow, Paul [LTS]" <p.brow@...>
> Reply-To: DTXpress@onelist.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:13:49 -0000
> To: "'DTXpress@onelist.com'" <DTXpress@onelist.com>
> Subject: RE: [DTXpress] Played live...want to hear about it?
>
> From: "Brow, Paul [LTS]" <p.brow@lmu.ac.uk>
>
> Just to back up what Giles has said - use good shielded and grounded cables -
> we use a 30m multicore with unbalanced outputs from DTX or a Korg synth and we
> have no hum pickup or interference at all. The multicore just acts like a
> bunch of long screened leads - works fine. Guitar leads are fine too. A UK
> company called Canford Audio also do an excellent range of cables,
> particularly good for DTX is the twin heavy duty single screened highly
> flexible HHS-M2 at about 60p per metre. Its also good for midi, hifi, leads in
> general. And a company CPC in Preston UK, do gold plated phonos and jacks at
> crazy prices - about 75p each.
>
> Paul Brow
> p.brow@...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Giles Hearn [SMTP:giles_hearn@...]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 12:06 PM
>> To: DTXpress@onelist.com
>> Subject: Re: [DTXpress] Played live...want to hear about it?
>>
>> From: Giles Hearn <giles_hearn@...>
>>
>> I use a 30 foot cable and it's fine. The point is to
>> make sure you use good quality shielded cable with
>> proper insulation and solid earthing at all points.
>> Even a short cable will pick up background noise if it
>> is not properly shielded. Most guitar cables are of
>> good quality since the potential to inheret noise
>> between guitar pickups and amplifiers is quite high.
>> But, as you rightly point out, a longer cable will be
>> more susceptible to noise than a shorter one.
>>
>
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