Instrument cables - hooked or not?

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Instrument cables - hooked or not?

Post by TomBar3 » Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:53 am

Hello,

Just a trivial question on instrument cables.
For my new Jazzmaster, I'm happy playing double hooked cables. Yet looking for a new cable (Mogami), it appears that double hooks are a rarity in shops. Futhermore, some even advice against using hooked cables on speaker side.
A hooked cable works perfectly well for both my VOX AC15 and new Boss Katana 100 (which is awesome by the way).
Though a dangling one looks more cool I admit ;)

What are the forum players experiences/recommendations?

Thanks!
(not sure if this is the correct subforum)

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Re: Instrument cables - hooked or not?

Post by Witchburner » Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:25 am

I prefer the hooked ones gtr side, the amount of times I've broken the plastic scratch plate on a fender blows my mind.

for some reason with the right angle'd ones it's never happend to me, most of my amps is a pain to have an angled connector, you always need backups anyway, gets to a point where it doesnt matter all that much to me ~

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Re: Instrument cables - hooked or not?

Post by marqueemoon » Tue Feb 13, 2018 1:07 pm

I'm from the "whatever's cheap" school, but if paying any actual money for a guitar cable I'd want a right angle on the guitar side. The only guitar I have where that wouldn't be better is my Strat that rarely gets played.

A straight plug with a Jazzmaster looks pretty tacky, but I haven't had any real problems with it.

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