Bought these to get rid of all excess cables on my pedalboard after browsing the net for valuable options. Pack comes with 3m of high-end cable and 10 plugs (which can be configured as straight or angled)
The "manual" is just a small leaflet with some pictures on and a "how-to" . After trying the first one i immediately noticed that this isn't as easy as most people may think. A couple of videos on the net show people assembling a complete pedalboard in high speed, but i have serious doubts that these work right off. It's a very thin line between making a perfect working cable, or ruining it by tightening the screw too much. I tested every cable with a multimeter before putting it in place on the board, and out of the 5 cables I made, I had three that I had to re-cut and shorten 2 cm because by tightening the screw I had accidentally pierced the cable. So be very careful! Don't tighten the screw as much as you'd think is necessary, but hold back a turn or two!
As for the quality : absolutely no complaints there! Right off,I noticed a huge difference in sound with the new rockboard cables. I always used the EBS patch-cables (with the flat heads to win some space on my board) and thought they worked fine, until I put these new ones on. Huge improvement!
Just another little thing to think about : you get 3m of cable and 10 plugs, which gives you the means to make 5 cables of 60 cm length. First off, this is a strange number of cables you can make... Most of the time you'll need a "send" and a "return" for each effect you use, so you'll need an even number of cables. So IMO this is far too much cable or too less plugs. You're not buying (this quite expensive) set this to make 60 cm cables on your pedalboard ? I used al ten plugs and was left with 1.8 m of cable. So it would be nice if they'd for starters added just 2 plugs so you can have 3 sets of send/return pairs.
So to wrap up:
Pro : - Sound quality and high-end state of the cables/plugs
Con : - Sensitive assembly and an uneven number of cables you end up with.
