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manufacturer: planet waves date: 04/25/2012 category: accessories

The American Stage Cables sound unbelievable. Planet Waves has done it again with an innovative, thoughtful design that treats your tone and gear with the respect that it deserves.

Features: 10 Sound: 10 Ease: 10 Impression: 10 Overall rating: 8.5

Reviewer rating: 10

Users rating: 7

Votes: 5

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American Stage Cables Featured review by: UG Team, on april 25, 2012 1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Features: While an instrument cable may not be the sexiest thing in the world, compared to a new guitar or amp, we feel this is one of the more overlooked categories of one’s overall tone. Imagine having a high-end guitar, playing through high-end effects and a high-end amp and cab, only to then rely on frayed, old cables, or to use cables that suffer from signal degradation. The cables end up being the weakest link in the chain, and they drag down your tone! Help is here! The fine folks at Planet Waves are known for continually innovating in the field of guitar, bass and general music products, and for constantly trying to push the boundaries of what we like to refer to as "music technology". They’ve raised the bar once again with the American Stage Cable series. The American Stage Cables are manufactured in the United States (hence their name), and meant to be a premium-quality cable built to handle years on the road or playing at home. The attention to signal quality starts with 22AWG wire and a very precisely-built outer cover and shield, which is designed to be more conducive to an instrument’s signal than what’s typically used in off-the-shelf cables. Planet Waves refers to this as their "In=Out technology", as in what goes in is what comes out. This is coupled with a custom-designed Neutrik connector on each end with premium solder joints, meant to handle serious abuse and not come apart. Add to this their exclusive Geo-Tip, a new design for the connector tip that’s meant to fit more snugly and securely in all pedals, instruments and amps, and you have a serious cable! // 10

Sound: For the purpose of this review, an American Stage 15-foot cable was tested with a Paul Reed Smith Modern Eagle Quatro guitar, plugged directly into a Marshall JVM410C combo amplifier using a variety of tone and gain settings. All tones were tested with both the neck and bridge humbuckers, as well as using split-coil configurations to simulate single-coil pickup tones. // 10

overall: 10

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Ease of use: This rig has been used for many previous Ultimate-Guitar.com tests in the past, and we know the tone well by now. We can say definitively that this is as pure a signal as we’ve heard. The rig was the same as in the past, and the room and tones were the same as in the past, and what we heard today was spectacular. The tone came through very clean, and we didn’t detect signal loss of any kind. Short of examining the output with an analysis tool side-by-side with other cables, we can say with confidence that this is as good a tone as you can get. // 10

Impression: The American Stage Cables sound unbelievable, and bring player-focused innovation to the fold with the new Geo-Tip connectors, and a flexible yet sturdy build that allows it to bend without getting tangled. They’re available in 10-30 foot lengths at present, and are very affordable up against other "premium" cable brands. Planet Waves has done it again with an innovative, thoughtful design that treats your tone and gear with the respect that it deserves. // 10 - Shekhar Dhupelia (c) 2012

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They're just cables, mate. Good longlasting ones, but there's little to no difference in sound between these and Venom's. This is more like an ad than a review, anyway...

I don't see any reason to "upgrade" from the Planet Waves Custom Instrument cables I already use.

Tone actually does really change with better/crappy cables...just sayin o_O

Only if you are upgrading from a really shitty cable.

I rarely notice much of a difference in sound from cables, but they're still worth reviewing since the overall quality of them can vary a lot. Some seemingly last forever and some start crackling and falling apart within a month.

i love it

I'd like to see that side-by-side comparison using spectrum analysis equipment. Unless you're comparing it to a really cheap cable, I dare say there wouldn't be much, if any difference. In a blind A/B test, I'll bet you couldn't tell the two apart.

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Shornifier wrote: Tone actually does really change with better/crappy cables...just sayin o_O

KG6_Steven wrote: I'd like to see that side-by-side comparison using spectrum analysis equipment. Unless you're comparing it

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