We love being able to share our music - whether it be songs inspired by people, places and events in our life or carefully chosen songs from other writers that have something to say that speaks directly to us. We're also very fortunate in having excellent istruments and a top notch state of the art sound system to help us deliver our music to larger audiences. So you can imagine how frustrating it is when technical gremlins creep in to wreak havoc with the sound.
You may remember we had problems with Jimmy's Taylor 910CE-L7 guitar ('Rio')... and following return of the guitar after replacement of the electronics, the sound seems even better than when we first bought him. But we were still a little wary that we'd had the problem only when using unbalanced cables - the Taylor-supplied balanced TRS to XLR cable showed no such issue through our Bose L1 system. So we decided that we should also carry balanced cables with us when playing through 'house' PA systems.
After much investigation we decided to try ClearTone custom made cables from Award-Session.Wow! We hadn't realised what a difference it could make - plugged into our Bose L1 the sound is somehow crisper and cleaner than even our existing balanced TRS to XLR cables. In fact we liked it so much that we've equipped all our Taylor Expression System guitars with these cables for use with our own system and have also bought some spare ones for use with other people's PA gear too! We've also swapped out our microphone cables and our standard TS jack to TS jack cable for Val's Taylor 855 12-string ('Missy') - she doesn't have the Taylor ES system, but uses an EMG sytem that was already installed when we bought her.
If you really love and truly respect the music, then you owe it to yourself and your audience to use the best quality cables that you can afford.
Links
jiva website
jiva MySpace
Award-Session ClearTone Cables
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