How do you keep your instrument / mic / speaker leads tidy ? I tend to coil them into a 12" dia coil, doing the 'half-twist' thing on each turn, then take the last couple of feet and feed it around and through the coil, effectively a very coarse wrap around the main coil, if you follow me. I then dump everything into a large sports bag, pedals and all.
I'm looking for a more consistent and secure way of keeping my leads tidy. What do you do ?
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Temperature pays a part too. If I go into our stores today and drag a load of cables out they will be very cold and unwilling to lay right on the ground. When you pack cables away in winter that don't live in the house it's a good idea to coil them properly.
For my own guitar cables and bits of kit like IEM box and strings etc I use a laptop bag. Loads of room in a good one and loads of little handy pouches to put stuff like Ebow and iPod
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When we set up there is a snake connection and several mains distribution boards in front of the drums. We are each responsible for mains and XLR connections between these points and own gear. So we each carry our personal cables.
For my personal gear I keep cables where they are used. Jack to jack in each guitar case, Mic XLR with my mic, Speaker and midi cables in the back of my rack box, and a spare of each in my toolbox.
If any cable is suspect then it gets put aside. I check and repair, or trash and replace, when I unload and store the gear.
As for where stuff goes xls in one trunk speaker cable in another power in a third, then have trunk/bag called problem solvers for all the bodge leads.
No matter what the time constraints are always take the time to pack away your cables properly it saves an awful lot of time and heartbreak in the long run
I have bags with sections for the type of lead and have coded layers of electrical tape - one for 6m cables, two for 10m etc so pack up is quick and I’m ready for the next gig.
When you’ve got about 12 inches left to go, feed the bight (the loop end) through the coil a couple of times.
You can then chuck the coil into the bag and it will always come out perfectly.
To unwrap, obviously find the bight, push it back through the coil twice, and .... watch carefully .... hold the two free ends and drop the coil. There you go - perfectly unwound, and both ends are in your hand ready to be plugged in.
There is no better, quicker way that doesn’t use velcro etc. (The coiling takes half as long too)
With XLR cables, you can also plug the two ends together for extra security, but you really won’t need to.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Leads coiled up properly, tied with velcro.
We use coloured cables with specific colours for specific things (dark blue for subs, etc) and it makes life a LOT easier, both when setting up and at the mixing desk.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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