Guitar Cord

mjareo said:
and...<shudder> daisy chaining....


<bigger shudder>

It might work for climbing ropes, it doesn't work for audio equipment.
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Yes, but it keeps my rigging rope from getting tangled up in the back of my car.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
lpdeluxe said:
Yeah, last summer I discovered Radio Shack velcro ties. Life is good.
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One of the companies I work for a lot uses them as a color code. Orange is 10 feet, purple is 15 feet, green is 25, red is 50, and blue is 100. It sure makes sorting through the cable drawer a lot easier.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
Light said:
Yes, but it keeps my rigging rope from getting tangled up in the back of my car.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Oh absolutely - unless it is my rescue bag which I just spaghetti into there (you really don't want to mess around with uncoiling it in a spot) I like to daisy chain. I still remember a guy in college that used to be the sound man for a traveling singing group I was a part of standing up and trying to teach all the new guys about how they needed to daisy chain mic cables. Needless to say, that didn't last long - about 15 seconds for him to finish the sentence. ;)
 
Light said:
One of the companies I work for a lot uses them as a color code. Orange is 10 feet, purple is 15 feet, green is 25, red is 50, and blue is 100. It sure makes sorting through the cable drawer a lot easier.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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That makes a lot of sense - I've been a believer in velcro cable ties for a long time as well, but never used 'em to color code lengths. I like that.
 
Light said:
No, it doesn't. It makes it worse. There are only two acceptable ways to coil a cable: over/under and figure eight. With either one, you are relieve the stress of each wrap with the next wrap. Anything else and you are fucking your cable.
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The point of over-undering is not to have any torsion (twisting tension) on the cable when it is stored, right? If you put a twist for every wrap (actually, it's removing the twist that the wrap puts into it) then the topological result is the same as if the cable were reeled onto a drum. How is that bad for the cable, if one is careful when unwrapping it?
 
I too wrap the cable in "Loops", ...but I always wrap them clockwise, and I always put a full clockwise turn in every loop which releaves the stress/tension that would other wise be applied by "Arm wrapping".

This is one correct way to wrap the cable.........if not, I guess the factories are doing it wrong when the put the cable on the spools. (All wire is applied to spools with a clockwise turning motion.)

I can't comment on the over/under method as I've not used it. :)

Rick
 
A/B'ing Monster cables....

I've not had a chance to do this yet, but I have done some pretty extensive testing of the George L's vs. a "Standard" cable.........I'm never going back to Standard cables again! :D

Rick
 
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