Diago Patchfatory!

Design my own pedal-board? No way!

Diago came up with quite a brilliant idea by doing this, custom make the patch-cable yourself.

Custom length patch cables allow you to lay out your pedalboard exactly how you want it, and no longer constrained by the discrete lenghts of pedals! If you need it just 1cm longer, tada! consider it done.

Comes with another question, is the connection strong? Reliable?

Whats makes you think about this is probably because other solderless cable designs suffer from poor reliability for two reasons, which is :-

1, Other screw-on caps use a coarse imperial thread. They calculated that by using fine metric thread instead, the same amount of force will tighten the cap more.

2. Finger-tightening, even with a knurled cap is simply not sufficient to make a reliable cable. They have machined a coin slot into each of our caps, allowing you to apply several times more force, resulting in a tighter fit. Using a coin means you can assemble a reliable cable without any additional tools wherever you are. Better still, the slot will fit almost all international coins. We don't recommend using plectrums - even the thickest ones just don't have the rigidity of a metal coin.

Easy Assembly

They have ensured that their solderless cable system is as easy as possible to assemble, while retaining maximum reliability. The Patch-factory Kit includes everything you need to put together 5 perfect cables (without the coin la of course !).

Check out the Assembly Instructions and Demonstration Video - you'll see just how easy it is:-

Haha! it is that simple!

The Diago Patchfactory system uses their own cable, designed in-house in the UK. It has a super-low capacitance of 30pF/ft (approx. 100pF/m) to prevent the treble roll-off caused by the high capacitance of poor quality cables.

The only advantage gold-plated connectors could offer is prolonged resistance to tarnishing & corrosion, since gold is a fairly unreactive metal. However, a principal called Galvanic Corrosion tells us that when two metals that are not the same are in contact, the rate of corrosion actually increases. Since all 1/4" input/output jacks are nickel plated, using a gold connector may actually reduce the life of the jacks in your pedals. It's for this reason that they use nickel-plated plugs.

Come on over and try it out guys! The signal is definitely stronger !