Connecting A Head To A Cab, speaker cable vs instrument cable Options

[Scott Gentzen]

This topic comes up on here occasionally. I finally got a cabinet to go with the Valve Jr I have so I decided to check it out.

I already had a 3' instrument cable and I just picked up a 3' speaker cable.

With the speaker cable, it sounds like it should.

The instrument cable is interesting. It is a lot different. The sound's muted, muffled, sorta. The low end is a little louder, but muddy and has a weird pulsating effect...kind of like a weird tremolo effect isolated to a certain frequency range. It increases as the volume increases.

I don't think it's damaging anything. It doesn't sound as "good" as one would expect it to sound but I don't think it's completely "wrong" either....just different. Makes me wonder what else I could put in between the head and the cab without wrecking the head..

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