Shielded Cable

[Amp Kat]

What kind of cable are you guys using now that doesn't suck your tone so much ?

[GibsonLover]

Canare GS-6

Google for Canare GS-6. You'll see it for $0.72 - $0.85/foot. It has low capacitance which is a plus with single coils, and doesn't matter too much
with the hummers.

[MattT]

TBH, I haven't ever had a problem with shielded cable robbing tone. But until recently I always used RG174 which is supposedly 'good'.

But I always thought that RG174 was a little too sensitive to heat and I wanted something with Teflon insulation. I went to an ebay seller and bought this really nifty Mil-spec blue stuff that's Teflon. It's even smaller OD than RG174 but the inner conductor is at least as big...feels like it's bigger. I can't remember if the center conductor is 22 gage or what...but it's right around that. It's a little stiffer than RG174 but still very bendable and it stays where I put it. The shield is braid. Here's a pic...the blue stuff is the shielded cable. All other wire in the amp is either 20ga Teflon or 18ga Teflon (for comparison).

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[GibsonLover]

Oh, 'That' shielded cable...

Inside the chassis, the smallest size is most workable. We use a Quad shield RG174 at work which is more rigid, but excellent against signal ingress. Those small coax cables have low characteristic impedance, but inside a chassis you are at a small fraction of a useble wavelength.