Gibson Memory Cable

[jackthehack]

For a c-note, I may have to break down and buy one of these....

http://www2.gibson.com/Memory-Cable.aspx

 

[croquet hoop]

Is it true bypass? Does it have airy mids and sparkly highs? And more importantly, is this memory cable able to remember that when I plugit, it does not need to keep coiling up and make a mess?

 

[bagman67]

If it doesn't have airy mids and/or sparkly highs, what effin' good is it?  Srsly, though, it'd be pretty bitchin' to have a version of the recorder you can just stick in your signal path using standard 1/4" cables.  And you'd probably have better margins, since you wouldn't have the extra packaging and materials and labor associated with permanently attaching the cables.  And you could employ a form-factor that affords a little better user-interface, since you're not constrained quite so rigorously by the 3/4" cylinder that thing is in.


But it is a neat idea, and even a useful one.

 

[croquet hoop]

Srsly, though, it'd be pretty bitchin' to have a version of the recorder you can just stick in your signal path using standard 1/4" cables.

Doesn't Line 6 make something like that? I think it makes more sense than the Gibson solution, because what are you going to do when the cable in which their recorder is built fails?  :-\

 

[bagman67]

That's precisely my reasoning:  Do I want to have to trash a $100 recorder because the mandatory included cable takes a crap?