Thanks for the link, AC/DC was my first heavy rock love and it doesn't seem to go away. Overall I don't think the album sounds as good as SUL but it's interesting to read. I just don't get what he says about double tracking guitars. If he puts one guitar in each speaker that's already double tracking isn't it?
that's one guitar track per player, so technically none of them really doubled their own parts.
as for the short cables, well maybe in those real big studios with huge liverooms and whatnot it's easy to use a much longer cable that anyone in a "normal" studio would ever need, and i guess at some length there will be some loss in tone.
i highly doubt that this could happen with a 10 or 20ft cable though.
btw, i remember an interview with anthrax where they said the same thing about keeping cable lengths as short as humanly possible....iirc they even used patch cables to connect their guitars to the amps/stompboxes whatever.
edit: maybe it's also more apparent when using really low gain sounds, produced by taking the guitar signal only and boosting it to real high volume level? after all, in metal there's lots of fizzy distortion crap going on all the time, it's much harder to notice subtleties. i could imagine it's a bit different for stuff like ac/dc, where it's really only angus and malcolms hands that are producing that classic acdc punch.
another note on the cable thing, there's manufacturers like vovox who are selling what's supposed to be the absolute highest end cables - for a horrendous price btw. there are lotsa debates over if it even makes a difference (some people claim there's a huge difference, other can't hear no difference at all), as technically they are working the same way, just higher value components if that.
fwiw, i'm using vovox cables to connect my monitoring rig to the fireface, and while i felt there is a difference, it wasn't a huge one by any means....
sorry for the OT
