Meter for measuring cable capacitance

Many capacitance meters HATE to be shorted. Capacitance of 1m wire should only be figured using an oscilloscope.

to gain necessary impedance safe for capacitance meter, you should have around few hundreds of meters of same wire tested as positive and negative terminal. 1m is waaay too short!!

Or, you could just calculate it here: 

It is “distributed capacitance” - you cannot measure it directly.  What you measure is a combination of capacitance, inductance and resistance of the cable.  I wouldn’t trust the meter, even when it displays sensible numbers.  There might be more complicated ways of multiple measurements at different frequencies and calculations, but I’ve never done it.  The best would be to get nominal capacitance per foot of the cable from manufacturer and adjust it (multiply) for the length.

Measure by putting a known capacitor (value) across the end of the cable and subtracting its value from the total.

I use an Excelvan M6013 for measuring capacitance of both guitar and audio cables.  It is inexpensive and available from Amazon.

The meter is a useful tool.  I’ve found guitar cable capacitance to noticeable affect the sound, especially direct into an amp. For reference, I primarily play a Telecaster into Fender amps.