#182

My favorite for home are these from All Electronics. They have larger barrels, but I’ve never had one break, unlike every single erthenvar I bought (over 50), which all broke within a few months.

When I need a lower profile to travel and fit in a closed case I think Control cables are great. No failures with those either.

#183

We recently made an illustration for a Tendrils cables t-shirt and they were very kind to send a few so I could see them in real life.
They are very much unlike most other cables, because they only come with an angled connector, are really thin and ultimately are geared towards not being in your way. They’re maybe not the perfect solution for people who patch and unpatch a lot, but they are great if you are more into keeping the same patch for a long time and want to organize the cables so they aren’t in the way.
https://www.tendrilscables.com/

And since it’s advertising time, some time ago I also made a logo for Glow Worm Cables, who have a really wast collection of glowing cables in various lenghts and colours. I didn’t see or use any of those in real life, but if glowing things are your cup of tea, you can check them out here: https://www.glowwormcables.com/

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#184

That was the same conclusion I came to. While I find with my current case I prefer straight connectors with a cable that drapes, I like using Tendrils for more “permanent” connections because their very low profile keeps them out of the way.

I have Bastl multiples at the end of two rows, with Tendrils (*) running off to my audio interface, leaving handy patch points.

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(*) they’re not long enough on their own, but I have them running to male-to-female extension cables. I understand Tendrils is going to offer some longer cables soon, though I think those will be only in black.

Similarly, I have Rockboard low-profile flat cables plugged into my ADDAC200PI running to my pedals, again keeping out of the way of the current patch.

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#185

This also irks me - have you tried dipping them in boiling water or any other un-cable-kinking methods?

#186

The Control BT cables was a while ago. I got some improvement with hot water, but they never entirely straightened out even after multiple treatments and hanging them for months.

After a while I had a mismash of several brands of cables, and wanted some consistency. I wound up replacing them all with Modular Addict braided cables. They are cheap, stiff, don’t kink and hang straight, and worked well when I was using vertical racks.

But when I switched to a curved case I found myself wanting softer, draping cables, so I switched to Modular Addict skinny cables instead. While they weren’t kinked like Control cables, the 18" ones held a curve for the first week or so – hot water didn’t help much, but hanging them with some weight did. They’re all good now though.

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#187

Tendrils are great. They weight also significantly less than your regular cables… and perfect for using with cases that might not have so much space lid closed.

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#188

has anyone here DIY’d banana cables? i know everyone loves pomona and i’m sure they’re worth the extra cash, but i’m going to need a bunch of bananas for a project i’m working on at the moment and i think the extra soldering time will be worth the savings for me (potentially hundreds of dollars).

i was thinking about going with these two products for cable building, but if you’ve used different DIY parts please let me know! there are a TON of plug options on ebay and it’s pretty hard to tell which are good and which are not good.

pomona insulated wire on mouser

bulk banana plugs on ebay

thanks!

#189

this is just me but last time I tried to homebrew bananas the cheapo ebay plugs were awful and the outcome was not worth the hassle. I would try it again only if I know that the plugs are good quality. Something I’ve learned is that the good cables cost money because of reasons. If quality is not concern why not just order the whole cable from ebay.

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#190

I’m in no way connected to this product, nor can I personally vouch for quality/etc… but figured this would be of interest to some…

#191

I don’t see anything at the link that suggests these are stackable - am I missing something?

#192

I think “stackable” here is a misdirect, they’re stackable in the sense that you can use right angle cables next to / on top of each other with the variable clearance for the right angle turn. So they’re not Tiptop stackables, but they sorta stack.

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#193

They don’t stack at all.

#194

They’re more spooning than stacking

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#195

Which would be kind of useful for my rig where there are quite a number of close-cut Tendrils.

#196

i placed “stackable” in quotes because as pointed out, they dont stack. I’ve changed the title of the post to avoid confusion. IMHO I still think these would come in handy for a variety of modules which have closely spaced jacks (i.e. just friends)

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#197

Thank you - and I’m sorry from drawing momentary attention away from what is truly interesting about these cables - I think they would make it a lot easier to get to the knobs on fully-patched modules, and easier to see what is patched.

I could also imagine some colored stick-on dots on the flat plug-heads to help discern each side of a patch - my own preference in patch cables is to have the long ones colored red and the shortest ones colored purple, with the appropriate colors in between because I’m That Guy Who Remembers ROYGBIV.

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#198

looks like they have red and purple options :slight_smile:

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#199

I’ll put in a brief plug for Luigi’s cables. He’s local to me and I have a lot of his regular cables. I saw these new right angle cables in person yesterday, and they’re the same high quality as his regular cables. The way they nest together is extremely clever. He told me the main reason he designed these was to get the mass of cables out of the way when using the Metron sequencer.

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#200

Putting in an order for the PAR cables. That dual level concept grabs me in a way other right-angle cables haven’t.

#201

drilled a bunch of holes in an oak 1x4 for my new grip of buchla brand bananas - the synth they’ll be patching isn’t quite done yet so i haven’t used them, but these certainly have a nice feeling to them.

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