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G1619T
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G1619T
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03/17/2011 1:52 pm
Buy a good cable. If you go to a big box store you will find all types. Find a family or individually owned guitar shop and ask them for a good cable. Start by spending what your comfortable with but, I suggest a middle priced one. The main difference in cables is the capacitance it adds to the input of your amp. Hendrix used a long coil cord almost exclusively because he said it added what he needed to help get his tone. Add capacitance with the impedance of your type of pick-up and your tone changes. 25 ft. is the longest I'd go with on a cord. Good Luck.