What do you guys use, or think is the best way to keep a whole bunch of cables together, I'm considering getting those tubes so they look like one fat cable together
Mine are all tied with 9 ply wax rope which is probably over the top for most folks. I would warn you not to run power cables with signal carrying cables or speaker cables for that matter. Keep them all well seperated as they can interfere with audio.
Ah yes, velcro, the greatest invention since duck tape!!! And for a really quick, temporary sort of thing a few clothespins will do in a pinch. See there it's true, nessissity is the mother of invention, and clutter is the father of innovation.
I made a bunch of vecro wraps and it works great. I previously used plastic "twisties" like you get with new gear (I had many cause I'm a gear slut). The twisties did the job, but were a pain to put on and off every time I swaped a cable, etc.
As already indicated, keet AC cables away from audio cables). Also if you plan to bundle cables - make sure you put a color code every x inches (I go about every foot). When you are trying to trace a cable it makes it soooooo much easier.
One thing I've done before is to tape some twist ties onto the bottom of my desk and such places.
Then I could run cables along, out of sight, and keep them all together, and it was easily detachable. I'd run things underneath, around the back, and run a single package up to the back of my interface.
That's a neat idea matta, I have plenty of cable ties already, but my 12 new cables came today at lengths of 6-10m so realising I have 100's of metres of cables, I'm going to get some velcro too I think