Re: Bare Shielded Audio Cable / Sleeving



Andre Jute wrote:

Lord Valve wrote:
I've got what you need. Unjacketed braided-shield cable is used for reverb

You guitar guys are so cheap. When I want a piece of unjacketed braided
shield, I strip out and off some Cardas TC5, which I use for
loudspeaker cable and for making powercords. I have a bigrolly thingy
of it I got when it was cheapish (can't remember now whether it was the
five buck a foot cable or the thirty buck a foot cable). It just plain
works, maybe because it is multisized multicore cable according to the
Golden Ratio or because it is made in Bandon Colorado whereas I live in
Bandon-across-the-Atlantic -- or more likely because it is good hefty
cable that can handle current and is properly designed and thoroughly
well made. I don't imagine I shall be let into microwatt heaven, you
know, the guys who think that a cable as thin as a hair is so thick it
will somehow consume your sound...

We're talking stuff in the 50 cents-per-foot range, here. CHEAP!

I've been living in Colorado for 35 years and I've never *heard* of
Bandon, let alone know where it is. My wife was born here - maybe
she's heard of it. I had no idea they made wire in CO.

tank leads on all of the old Fender amps. I stock it. E me or call me at
303-778-1156 and I'll fix ya right up. It's cheap.

Actually, I'm looking forward to the bunfight about the pulls you say
in your new catalogue are coming, just after the section where you say
you do geetah toobs and despise audiophiles.

I don't despise 'em, I just think most of them are fulla ***. ;-)

I will, of course, take their money. If forced. The pulls, well...
there will certainly be a contingent of screeching arseholes
who will make noises about where I got them from. They'll
make up stories about me robbing them from customers' amps
and whatnot. This will be from the people who wouldn't give
me a nickle to piss on them if they were on fire, so let 'em
screech. There'll be plenty of takers, no worries. I offered
40 pairs of used RCA blackplate 6L6s on "The Gear Page"
and they sold out in less than three days. This was right before
they banned me for dissing $1500 AC mains cables. Fuckin'
cork-sniffin' retards, jeez....

Some of those tubes, like
the 5881, are definitely audiophile tubes.

Those sound mighty fine in the old Tweed Fenders.

While we're talking about your catalogue, I must say, Willie, I don't
understand why your tubes are so cheap. Since your tubes are selected
for musicians by a musician, something the quick scam artists ('garage
vermin') can't offer, you should charge a premium price.

Musicians don't have any money.

If I can turn a decent profit and still stay within the average
bar-band warrior's budget, that's where I'm aimed. I do,
however, get a considerable amount of GFM (Girl Friend
Money) around Christmas. The guys I sell the most stuff
to are the big tours (Derek Trucks is touring with Eric
Clapton right now) and the collectors - mostly doctors and
lawyers who can't play a lick but have tons of money to
spend on fine old amps. (And fine old tubes - not everything
I have available makes it into the e-mail catalogs. ;-)

I'm not even
talking about extra labour and otherwise good tubes rejected for not
making the tonemeister's cut, I'm talking about an outright premium for
expertise. If you guarantee a professional sound, you should charge a
professional price.

Mind you, the two facts together, the tone guarantee and the bargain
price, probably accounts for the long, long list of musicians
constantly in work among your customers that you used to print in your
sig. Are we to conclude that even famous guitar players are cheap?

Well, some of 'em are from humble beginnings.

I know a few dudes from the A tours who pinch a nickle so hard
the buffalo shits... (We have buffalo nickels again!)

I kiss your feet, my...

Lord Valve
Sales Hack (Hi, Andre. Enjoying your posts, as usual. Keep 'em
screeching. ;-)

Just been reading Frank Herbert's first Dune Trilogy again. Super
literature, super thrillers, more ecology in his little toe than the
entire Greenpeace movement and the Enemies of the Gaia together.

Herbert also did *great* work before the Dune trilogy.

His problem was that he couldn't stop writing it. Hell, his
SON is *still* writing it. It's interminable. (Not that I didn't
enjoy the original three; the first 50 pages of the first book -
which I read in the original publication in the short-lived
large format issues of Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact -
nearly bored me silly, but once it got going it was gangbusters.)
Check out his "The Santaroga Barrier," and "Hellstrom's Hive."

Makes
me wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to bring back feudalism. The
first useless twerps we'll shackle to the slave galleys would be the
ecologists.

The "ecologists" don't actually *know* anything.

They *suspect* that whatever is wrong (if anything is actually wrong)
it's George Bush's fault. If it rains, Bush did it. If it doesn't rain, Bush
did that, too. They're all bonkers.

Lord Valve
Expert




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