Long Speaker cable or long patch cord... that is the question.

[Gordon -10]

Im wondering is it better sonically to have your amp head in the control room, and have the cab in the booth (about 15 - 20 feet of cable) so its the speaker cable that's long and your patch cord from your guitar to the head is much shorter. Or to have the whole amp the the booth/live room so that the speaker cable is short and your patch cord is long? Anybody have any opinions/experience with this?

[retarded]

I'd say that the speaker cables are the least sensitive cables with the highest signal in, so they can hardly be influenced by anything they might encounter on the way, like a low-level signal cabel might...

[ShamansDream]

I'd move the amp as far away from the guitar as possible. Amps are notorious for RF interference and a guitar is one of the best antenna available to pick up that hum, or even AM1190 stike

[allaccess]

In my experience, it's better to have a long speaker cable run than a long guitar cord run. The signal coming out of a guitar is very low, and will degrade over a long cable run, esp if there are multiple connections. 100 watts of marshall cares less about a long run, but the key is to use the best cables you can in both of these applications...

Ryan Hewitt

[barefoot]

Most guitars are high impedance sources, therefore pretty sensitive to long cables - i.e. noise pickup and high frequency loss. I'd go with the long speaker wires. On the other hand, ShamansDream has good point about RF and keeping the amp away from the guitar.

Thomas

[aussie_techie]

you might need something like the little labs STD
http://www.littlelabs.com/std.html

[Addni]

sorry to bump and old thread

Long speaker cable !

Guitar(or reamp) and head in the CR, Cab in the live room. Mic it up and adjust the amp sound trough the mic. So you're actually hearing what you will be getting in the mix!

Today I prefer recording guitar DI, the reamping them later with cab in other room, i get a guitar sound that's pretty nice. Go in the other room with mic and headphones, position the mic at the place I think sounds best, then get back into he CR and tweak the head, listening trough the mic until I get what I'm looking for.