Topic: How do you keep your cables from tangling?

[greenone]

Just curious how folks keep their cables from tangling up...I tried putting some of those plastic cable ties around mine but all they do is nick my fingers when I go to pack my cables back up. Do you keep your cables apart and wind each one up separately after a show? I'm thinking about creating/finding some kind of wide (circumference) but narrow (depth) spool to wind the cables around to facilitate setup and breakdown... anyone ever tried this? Other ideas?

[F.O.Bean]

the tyton nylon ties are where its at....they werk like a charm, its werth the fingers getting mauled.....

[Chuck]

Just curious how folks keep their cables from tangling up...I tried putting some of those plastic cable ties around mine but all they do is nick my fingers when I go to pack my cables back up. Do you keep your cables apart and wind each one up separately after a show? I'm thinking about creating/finding some kind of wide (circumference) but narrow (depth) spool to wind the cables around to facilitate setup and breakdown... anyone ever tried this? Other ideas?

If you don't like the nylon ties, use rubber bands, velcro straps etc... I use the nylon ties. I made the mistake of using electrical tape on my first rig. The mistake was made apparent at a Grateful Dead run in Las Vegas, where the field temperature was like 120 degrees. The electrical tape adhesive melted and I had a gooeey mess.  

[John Kelly]

How do you do the under over coil?

[John Kelly]

Awesome, thanks, and +t.

[Chuck]

http://www.taperssection.com/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=1275;start=msg7329#msg7329

Here is a thread dealing with stowing cables.

There is a link in this above mentioned thread to the over-under coil (or some such name) aka....... the roadie coil.


Over-Under coil video link;

Found it....
http://www.new-line.nl/zipfiles/overunder.mpeg

best if you loop the video

check alt.audio.pro.live-sound and you can read details.

This looks like something that should go in the Archive?

[greenone]

Damn...I was hoping I could avoid the "roadie coil". Here's the problem with that - I like leaving my cables hooked up to my V2 so it's one less thing I have to worry about when I'm setting up. Anyone leave everything hooked up and have other solutions?

I just found a sweet bag at a local camera shop for $35 that I might spring for instead of the piece of shit Promaster bag whose clasp broke after two months of use (ARGH). The new bag will let me run the V2 horizontally instead of vertically and will have more room for the cables so maybe I'll go that route...I dunno.

[tim in jersey]

I use right angle 3' cables (marked left and right) that I leave connected to the back of my v3 in my bag. Then all I have to do is run my long mic cables and connect them to the shorties.

[nickgregory]

I use right angle 3' cables (marked left and right) that I leave connected to the back of my v3 in my bag. Then all I have to do is run my long mic cables and connect them to the shorties.

this is exactly what I will be doing with my equip all setup in the rakgear deluxe when the shorty interconnects get here...

[Arglebargle]

I have a cheap low tech way of dealing with this, I just use plastic grocery bags for each cable and coil them up and put one cable in each bag.

[coop]

you can also use shrink tubing.  a 3/8" band of it every 12"- 15" works well.  you can also avoid the nicks from the zip ties by flush cutting them with a fingernail clipper. makes a nice smooth end on the tie.
     coop

[1st set only]

I use the plastic ties but instead of coiling the cables I find that "folding"  them works much better. they dont tangle as much

[John R]

wire and cable have a natural coil upon manufacture.  for shorter lengths(15-25 ft) i coil them onto themselves and velcro them.  for longer lengths, i use the over/under.

jr

[F.O.Bean]

wire and cable have a natural coil upon manufacture.  for shorter lengths(15-25 ft) i coil them onto themselves and velcro them.  for longer lengths, i use the over/under.

jr

that si EXACTLY what i do john, i also have mine nylon tied together..werksVERY well.....

[Lee]

just throw 'em in a snake bag like the crocodile hunter and be done with it!

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