NAD - Cornell Traveller 5

Ok, ordered and on the way, thanks Don/fellas...

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The guitar/pedal/amp was sounding great tonight, so it's gonna get better which is nice.

I will pop to the guitar 'tech' tomorrow and ask him what crap he sold me...

(To be honest, I've hardly used the cab since I bought it, and now I know why - I just presumed the cable he made up for the cab was right, but it clearly isn't - actually, I'm gonna cut it open and post a pic... Just gonna get it out of the bin.
 
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Mr Grumpy said:
I wonder why...
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From Carvin Audio:

Using an instrument cable in place of your speaker cable can cause catastrophic damage to your amplifier. While your amp will still work initially, the high amount of current going through the instrument cable’s small gauge wire can actually melt the cable! Furthermore, this may cause a short, damaging your amplifier.

Another issue with using shielded cables for speaker cables is they introduce a capacitive element that can destabilize your amplifier. Most amplifiers have improved to withstand using the wrong type of cable for a short time, but no one likes to test their amplifier’s stability at a show. This can cause some crazy results in some amps leaving it damaged and you paying the repair bill.

The rest of the article:
carvinaudio.com

Speaker vs. Instrument Cables - A Simple Guide

While standard ¼-inch speaker and instrument cables may look similar, they have a few key differences that make it so you cannot use them interchangeably.
carvinaudio.com carvinaudio.com
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Here are a couple of pictures - it looks ballpark the right kinda cable - I wonder why it sounded so average (and low volume from amp to cab)?

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That’s a dual core instrument cable. It would help to see the full terminal end, but the guts of it show the shield is soldered to the sleeve, and the two available conductors are soldered to the tip.
In your TRS versions there is a third solder tab for the ring. That same raw cable (in your pictures)can be used for both TS instrument, or TRS balanced cables.
 
^ & ^^ :LOL:

I started off saying that you should never trust the Korean guitar techs, and now I have more support. This fella has his own shop and is considered the best, by far, guitar tech in this city (the third biggest in Korea).

I've learnt good stuff, maybe I'll go tomorrow and learn him... Surely, he should know... He made the cable specifically for the cab to amp.
 
^ you're a bad man!
(a smart bad man...) :LOL:

syscokid said:
From Carvin Audio:

Using an instrument cable in place of your speaker cable can cause catastrophic damage to your amplifier. While your amp will still work initially, the high amount of current going through the instrument cable’s small gauge wire can actually melt the cable! Furthermore, this may cause a short, damaging your amplifier.

Another issue with using shielded cables for speaker cables is they introduce a capacitive element that can destabilize your amplifier. Most amplifiers have improved to withstand using the wrong type of cable for a short time, but no one likes to test their amplifier’s stability at a show. This can cause some crazy results in some amps leaving it damaged and you paying the repair bill.

The rest of the article:
carvinaudio.com

Speaker vs. Instrument Cables - A Simple Guide

While standard ¼-inch speaker and instrument cables may look similar, they have a few key differences that make it so you cannot use them interchangeably.
carvinaudio.com carvinaudio.com
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The wife is already a massively destabilising influence, I don't need any more...

I hope my Analogman pedal turns up tomorrow, I went for the treble booster - I'm looking forward to comparing it against the Mad Professor pedal. :dood:
 
this will certainly fix all the problems---

10ft cable-- 150.00 --- has pixie dust and dinosaur farts in the casing--- touch as nails --- PURE sound and tonal transmition----
 
eSGEe said:
this will certainly fix all the problems---

10ft cable-- 150.00 --- has pixie dust and dinosaur farts in the casing--- touch as nails --- PURE sound and tonal transmition----
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I'm sure a quality individual such as yourself isn't insinuating as much, but I could spend that much money, and far more, for the wrong cable with ease... Twice on Sundays and bank holidays. :ROFLMAO:
 
Thatbastarddon said:
That’s a dual core instrument cable. It would help to see the full terminal end, but the guts of it show the shield is soldered to the sleeve, and the two available conductors are soldered to the tip.
In your TRS versions there is a third solder tab for the ring. That same raw cable (in your pictures)can be used for both TS instrument, or TRS balanced cables.
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Mr Grumpy said:
^ & ^^ :LOL:

I started off saying that you should never trust the Korean guitar techs, and now I have more support. This fella has his own shop and is considered the best, by far, guitar tech in this city (the third biggest in Korea).

I've learnt good stuff, maybe I'll go tomorrow and learn him... Surely, he should know... He made the cable specifically for the cab to amp.
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Please note the edit in my previous post...I’m multitasking, and left out a detail originally...your raw cable pictured is a dual conductor, shielded cable. That particular raw cable can be used for instrument TS, balanced TRS, and mic balanced XLR, cable manufacture...it will readily accept any of those terminal connectors to be soldered in place.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
I'm sure a quality individual such as yourself isn't insinuating as much, but I could spend that much money, and far more, for the wrong cable with ease... Twice on Sundays and bank holidays. :ROFLMAO:
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I just so happen to have several "vintage" guitar cords lying about --- send me your CC# and address ;)

Yargnad said:
Does this imply that you're able to hear pure tonal transmission of the dino farts? If so, send me one!!
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no -- but the ones Im selling Grump do smell a bit like dog farts.......................;)
 
Yargnad said:
The Beano Boost? Ive read that's the holy grail of modern boutique TBs. The IvanH Rangemaster would give it a run for the money I'm sure. Can't get much better than that into a cranked class A.
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That's my hope.

I suspect it will massively outperform the Mad Professor on Treble Booster alone, but the Mad Professor is really good when its boost circuit is used along with the treble booster and master volume - takes some tweaking, but it's glorious, kinda feels like you're playing 10db louder than you actually are (which is exactly what I wanted from that pedal).

Ivan & Sysco have made some superb pedals which we've seen of late. TBH, although the Analogman is supposed to be top notch, I reckon it'd be hard pressed to put Ivan/Sysco pedals in the shade - if they both send me a pedal then I can put that to the test.
 
eSGEe said:
this will certainly fix all the problems---

10ft cable-- 150.00 --- has pixie dust and dinosaur farts in the casing--- touch as nails --- PURE sound and tonal transmition----
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What a deal! I think I'll order 10 of them... :rolleyes2:
 
Yargnad said:
Exactly, the rangemaster, much to my surprise, really tightens up the bottom end on the tweed Deluxe and gets rid of a considerable amount of that Fender looseness on the lows at high volume levels. Lets me crank it up higher so it actually is louder and more gooder overall.
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Treble Boosters seem to do a lot of really good stuff for the right amps; amazing pedals.

As I said, I had this Mad Professor TB before, and I also had this one:


It was a pretty cool pedal, but I loved my Randall at the time, and no pedals added anything good to that sound... I wish I'd've kept it now though for this new amp which is more AC-ish. I've got a new rule: pedals I don't use which are good can be put in the cupboard for later rather than sold...
 
Mr Grumpy said:
That's my hope.

I suspect it will massively outperform the Mad Professor on Treble Booster alone, but the Mad Professor is really good when its boost circuit is used along with the treble booster and master volume - takes some tweaking, but it's glorious, kinda feels like you're playing 10db louder than you actually are (which is exactly what I wanted from that pedal).

Ivan & Sysco have made some superb pedals which we've seen of late. TBH, although the Analogman is supposed to be top notch, I reckon it'd be hard pressed to put Ivan/Sysco pedals in the shade - if they both send me a pedal then I can put that to the test.
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Analog Mike certainly knows how to build a proper and simple treble booster. Even though he's not sourcing the coveted OC44's or CV 7003's for practical reasons, he does expertly source other (NOS) germanium transistors and knows exactly how to tune the circuits.

I built my two TB's after sourcing a couple CV 7003's with the proper specs. Because of this, I was able to use the standard Rangemaster component values... and just like magic, the proper voltage specs of the circuit were already there. Those two NOS germ-trannies weren't cheap either. What was probably a 25 cent part 50 to 60 years ago, is now like $20 and not counting the shipping, that for me was about another $11 for 2 of them from the UK.
 
syscokid said:
Analog Mike certainly knows how to build a proper and simple treble booster. Even though he's not sourcing the coveted OC44's or CV 7003's for practical reasons, he does expertly source other (NOS) germanium transistors and knows exactly how to tune the circuits.

I built my two TB's after sourcing a couple CV 7003's with the proper specs. Because of this, I was able to use the standard Rangemaster component values... and just like magic, the proper voltage specs of the circuit were already there. Those two NOS germ-trannies weren't cheap either. What was probably a 25 cent part 50 to 60 years ago, is now like $20 and not counting the shipping, that for me was about another $11 for 2 of them from the UK.
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You did a superb job, the TB you made sounds great (or, at least one of them...).

I'll take pics of the innards with closeups of stuff like transistors (you just like the word trannies rolling off your lips... as opposed to actual trannies rolling off your lips which would be something completely different, and dangerous).

At 25 cents a tranny at high voltage, there would be danger.

 
Blimey, Geezer! But, to be fair, you have some fantastic pedals there. Are you an EarthQuakerDevices fan?

For some absurd reason, I was messing around on Youtube and listened to this song (reminded me of an old gf via her brother - he listened to the group; not too creepy as we were together for over 3 years, lived together and stuff...).


3:25am in Korea, I think I'll pop to the local 7/11 and get a bottle of Jahermeister... Hope the wife doesn't notice.
 
Yargnad said:
Acapulco Gold
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That one large knob master is a pedal I've nearly bought a few times... I had an EQD EQ pedal, it was very good, but huge, towering. I've nearly bought their fuzzes many times (various types, especially the tonebender style - I love fuzz, but can never make it work; all I actually need is an MXR D+, that's as fuzzy as I can control... :(

They only had the small .35l bottle; it's medicinal.

Here's another terrible song which for some strange reason I vaguely remember fondly - might have been the acid to blame...


Don't they call this genre 'greb'? - never was my favourite, so not sure why it's enjoyable tonight; nostalgia maybe.
 
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