Introducing the ultimate curled-cord emulation box that'll take you back to the legendary days of Jimi Hendrix!

It's a well-known fact that many rockers in the 60s and 70s, including the one and only Jimi Hendrix, used curled cords as guitar shield cables. These cables may seem to have poor conduction efficiency nowadays, but they're still a fantastic piece of rock history.

Now Fender even sells the 30-foot-long (approx. 9.15m) curled cord that is modeled after the one used by Jimi Hendrix at the time!

The reason I bring up the subject of curled cords because they may actually be an important element in reproducing the rock sound of the time. The point is that a 30-foot-long cord has a large capacitance, which has a significant impact on sound quality. They estimate that the capacitance could have been 2200pF to 3300pF.

If that's true, you've got to get a curled cord and test it to see how much it'll affect the sound quality of your guitar. However, even if I went to the trouble of getting an expensive curled cord, it would be too long and heavy, and I would not have much chance to actually use it. But that's okay. There are plenty of other ways to get the same effect. So, I thought, why not try to create the same capacitance with a capacitor?

I had a 2200pF capacitors that I had bought by mistake a long time ago and left alone. I made a small box with this capacitor built in.

I used the completed box and two 3-meter cables and played the sound through an amplifier. I'm not sure exactly if this is really the sound of a 30-foot curled cord, but I guess the sound is OK. Some say the sound is simply degraded, but whatever the case, I'm in a Jimi Hendrix mood, you know.