How To Save Money When Upgrading Guitar Patch Cables
Making the decision to upgrade your guitar pedal cables and patch cables can be an expensive pill to swallow. This is even more true when you have a full rack unit that will have to be upgraded as well. When this is your situation you'll have well over a dozen cables to replace! Most people will have put together their rack with random cables when they were acquiring the gear, but to get the most out of everything you need to have uniform and quality guitar cables. In this post we'll take a look at why that is and how to save money when upgrading.
There's an old saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This could not be any more true than when it comes to guitar cables. You can spend hundreds of dollars on the fanciest silver-core guitar cable and have your tone still sound like crap if you have shoddy patch cables. This happens because even if your signal is pure coming out of your guitar and through your fancy cable, it will still face loss and interference as soon as it hits the cheap cables. Rather than spending a fortune on one main cable, you'd be better off spreading the cost over uniform cables from the guitar to the amp and through your rack unit.
In order to save money on your guitar patch cables you should buy them in bulk. Many retailers will offer discounts on bulk packs of patch cables, which will include between 10 and 24 cables. The size of your rig will, obviously, determine how many you need, but you should also anticipate any gear that you plan on adding in the future so that you already have the cables that you need on hand.
It's funny to think that something as small as a patch cable can have such a large impact on your tone. Getting rid of those weak links will make a huge improvement on your overall tone and give you that clear voice that you want.
