Amp to cab cable question

[pete.young]

i have a load of HOAL5 and HOAL7 pond cable somewhere, it never occurred to me to make speaker cables out of it until now. It's very flexible, and also totally waterproof so handy for those swimming pool photoshoots. I used it to repair umbelical dive lights which were a big deal before the invention of the LED.

[TimR]

On 31/05/2025 at 23:02, chyc said:

Using the cable as a guitar lead will not work out so well as the cable will be unshielded so you'll get a lot of unwanted interference added to your signal so bear that in mind if you want the cable for double duty.

 

I had to read this twice.

 

Don't use Instrument leads for your speakers or Speaker leads for your guitar. They are not interchangeable, you can't use them for 'double duty'. 

 

 

AND if your speakers are powered, don't use speaker leads between your mixer and the speakers. Use 2 core twisted sheilded pair with XLR or TRS jacks. 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by TimR