peritus
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Creamyapples1 said:
haha.. If I can get enough cables on there, it'd make for a cool diffusor..
haha.. If I can get enough cables on there, it'd make for a cool diffusor..
alien
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I use pegboard, but my room is large enought o where it has no impact. It's also a rather small piece, but there's about 100 cables hanging off of it.
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peritus said:
Duct tape?
Seriously, though, my cable routing involves extra long velcro cable ties fastened to things. You can fasten them with screws or staples to your wall, or you can wrap them around posts, metal shelf wires, etc. Once you do that, you just hang the cables in the velcro strap and loop it back on itself.
My parents bought be a container with a bunch of the velcro straps plus a bunch of rip ties at Lowes for a few bucks last Christmas. You can also buy the straps by themselves (long ones) at Lowes, Home Despot, Wal-Mart, etc. for a few bucks for a dozen or so.
Oh, yeah... and for cable storage, you can get these screw-in hooks at Home Depot in one of the aisles that's right behind the tools bullpen. They have rubber-coated hooks of various shapes and sizes. They're designed for holding everything from bicycles to shovels, but they work well for cables, too.
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RandyW
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I use a method similar to the above post. I coil all my XLRs and instrument cables and use them as counter weights on my mic stands. It help to keep the mic stands stabilized and you know where everthing is at a glance.
I use a method similar to the above post. I coil all my XLRs and instrument cables and use them as counter weights on my mic stands. It help to keep the mic stands stabilized and you know where everthing is at a glance.
Treeline
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peritus said:
Oh, man. Everyone has a different way of explaining it. What I try to do is coil the XLR cables up so each time they flex differently and do not develop memory. The idea is to minimize stress failures.
I start at the same gender connector each time (except when I forget). Hold the connector loosely in your right hand and coil the cable over with the other - thumb meeting thumb and with your left inside of your right so the cable comes up from the left. With the next loop, coil the cable over with your left hand on the far side of your right and the coil still comes up from the left.
The idea is each coil twists the wire bundle slightly in the opposite direction from the preceding or following coil. Over time you end up with cable that is similar to when it was new, without multiplying right or left twisting.
If you develop consistency in the size of the coil, you can end up with the XLR connectors meeting. Use a velcro cable tie and you have a neat coil that won't tangle easily with others.
When you lay out the cables, if you have been consistent, you can find that they can be tossed like a lariat - one end right to the mic or whatever. No tangling. I'm still trying to work this one out. If you start from the wrong end, toss the coil and you'll end up with a fireman's knot for each loop. Oops. Anyway, I've done it but cannot seem to do it consistently.
peritus
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Very cool.. Thanks
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notbradsohner
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i still want to know how to roadie coil
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Cosmic
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nbs,
"Roadie coil".....coiling the way sound crews and TV crews do. It's called "over and under":
Disconnect cable and stretch it somewhat out on the ground in front of you.
Hold just behind the plug of the cable between the thumb and the index finger of your right hand.
Reach and take the cable with index/thumb of left hand, and pull the cable towards you to have slack on the ground, and enough to make a loop.
Start bringing your left hand toward your right hand while 'rolling' the cable to the right with your left fingers, enough that a loop appears. This is the 'over' loop. Hold loop with right fingers.
Grab cable with left index/thumb again. This time as you bring your left hand towards the right, you 'roll' the cable to the left; your left hand will turn with the palm up by the time the loop is done and the right hand receives the loop. This is the 'under' loop.
Go back to the first one and repeat and so on.
It's one of those things that sounds very complicated when you try to put it into words without pictures, but that becomes absolutely part of your backbone when you do it enough.
The key is that the cable should be relaxed when you do it. Although the ideal is over/under/over/under all the way, if you have a cable with bad wrapping memory, don't worry if you have to do 2-3 overs or unders simply because the cable is "used to it", but always strive for o/u/o/u as much as possible.
I hope this makes sense; I can coil over/under almost in my sleep, but trying to describe it is something else..
Best,
C.
"Roadie coil".....coiling the way sound crews and TV crews do. It's called "over and under":
Disconnect cable and stretch it somewhat out on the ground in front of you.
Hold just behind the plug of the cable between the thumb and the index finger of your right hand.
Reach and take the cable with index/thumb of left hand, and pull the cable towards you to have slack on the ground, and enough to make a loop.
Start bringing your left hand toward your right hand while 'rolling' the cable to the right with your left fingers, enough that a loop appears. This is the 'over' loop. Hold loop with right fingers.
Grab cable with left index/thumb again. This time as you bring your left hand towards the right, you 'roll' the cable to the left; your left hand will turn with the palm up by the time the loop is done and the right hand receives the loop. This is the 'under' loop.
Go back to the first one and repeat and so on.
It's one of those things that sounds very complicated when you try to put it into words without pictures, but that becomes absolutely part of your backbone when you do it enough.
The key is that the cable should be relaxed when you do it. Although the ideal is over/under/over/under all the way, if you have a cable with bad wrapping memory, don't worry if you have to do 2-3 overs or unders simply because the cable is "used to it", but always strive for o/u/o/u as much as possible.
I hope this makes sense; I can coil over/under almost in my sleep, but trying to describe it is something else..
Best,
C.
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