Academy Of Tone 267: The truth about guitar cables: What really affects your tone

Special guest: John Colbourne

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:26 - Thomas and John play some Neil Young
00:10:15 - Welcome to AOT 267
00:10:34 - A bit more about John's passion for Neil Young
00:12:13 - Thomas's past and future gigs
00:18:06 - Personal life questions to John
00:30:13 - What is this device that John invented?
00:42:33 - Let's measure some pickups
00:47:57 - QA Can i buy this pickup tester?
00:50:01 - Let's measure some more pickups
00:54:23 - Even the screws and the cover make a huge difference on a pickup
00:57:50 - The story of John's guitar
01:02:53 - Thomas and John play some Lou Reed "Walk on the wild side"
01:08:42 - Input impedances on an amp
01:14:01 - Let's compare the sound of a couple different cables
01:20:49 - And now we measure the capacitance of those cables
01:26:35 - Let's play those cables again, and the cable+capcitor
01:30:49 - Wave impedance of a cable
01:32:06 - Graph of the resonant frequencies and the capacitance
01:33:55 - Picture showing the Guitar frequency range
01:36:45 - Let's hear a cable with a "Timbre plug" (different capapictors)
01:39:59 - A cable can sound different depending what direction you put it in
01:46:51 - What happened to John 2 nights ago
01:48:17 - Soundengineers: This is not hip-hop
01:49:58 - Graphic about the cable
01:53:07 - So what about a wireless system?
02:00:52 - More technical gadgets, more problems
02:03:19 - John is attracted to the different characteristics of the guitar
02:08:56 - Does your guitar change it's playabilty if you would have someone else play it for awhile?
02:12:46 - Thank you all for watching, see you all next week
02:16:10 - Outro