JENA Labs GT Guitar Cable - Now here's something you don't see every day: Ye Olde Editor revealing his guitar jones, and praising an electric guitar cable here in the pages of PFO! Yes, I have to confess it: I've been a guitar lover and guitar player for decades now …acoustic and electric both. In the past 15 years, I've owned three different Mesa Boogie amps (the .22 Studio, a Mark IV head amp with 4 x 12 cabinet, and my pride and joy, a brand new Road King Series II 2x12 Combo in Flame Maple with tan wicker ...outstanding!) to go with my Fender Strat HM, several Rickenbackers, a Gibson, and a Takamine or two (currently the excellent Super Natural 15CF with tubed acoustic-electric pickup …exceptionally cool.)

All of which is to say that I've wasted a lot of money on guitar cables over the years, generally two or three at a time, to accommodate various fiddlings with pedals, effects processors, and the like.

I'm glad to say that I've finally reached the end of that trail, partners. With the arrival of the JENA Labs GT Guitar cable, in all of its carefully hand-constructed, shielded, cryogenically treated, twin cable helix glory, my frustration with edgy, harsh, garish guitar sound is banished. A GT's between my Strat and my Vox ToneLab pedal/processor system, and another 'twixt my processor and my Boogie Road King Series II, and I've been a truly happy man! It's absolutely the best guitar cable I've ever used.

The acid test: taking the GT down to Guitar Center in Clackamas, and having my main man, store manager and jazz guitarist Eric Abaté, compare it with the likes of Monster Cable and Mogami, their "reference" cables. A/B/C swap and listen, with a handful of guitar specialists listening in.

Kazow! To say that this was no contest …to say that the GT annihilated the other cables…to say that the Guitar Center folks were shocked, would be only accurate.

Got an electric guitar? Get thee to a GT!

For more information on this just-launched product, email JENA Labs: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . The web page isn't up as of publication.

Meanwhile, here's my first Brutus Award for a high-end guitar cable—and richly deserved!