Post pics of the wire nest.

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How do you keep wires under control?

  • I don't even try

    Votes: 17 35.4%

  • I wrap some tape around some of it and let it hang all over the place

    Votes: 9 18.8%

  • I zip tie it all together

    Votes: 14 29.2%

  • I run wiring for NASA so I just do it the right way..

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • I run plumbing around the room for wires

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • some way jake hasn't thought of...(specify)

    Votes: 4 8.3%
  • Total voters
    48
90% of my wiring mess is computer cable! USB, Parallel, monitor etc... I only have 2 wires running from my rack to my DAW. Stereo In and Stereo Out :D This soon will be changing though as I am getting a Digi 001 this weekend along with scads of other gear, and I will have to adopt some of the things I saw here. I have had considerable experience wiring building though. I have run more Cat3 and Cat5 than I'd ever care to remember and wired more punch-down panels and Cat5 Patch bays than I can shake 10 sticks at. So, in all that experience, you tend to pick up a couple tricks along the way.
 
. I have run more Cat3 and Cat5 than I'd ever care to remember and wired more punch-down panels and Cat5 Patch bays than I can shake 10 sticks at. So, in all that experience, you tend to pick up a couple tricks along the way. [/B]
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Same here. I used to do electrical contracting (lots of trucks, large crews, multiple jobs at the same time) and I got into network wiring because there was really no competition during the late 80's. Glad i'm out of that completely, and have been for 13 years.

Though its good skills to have. I have a spool of fiber snake in the garage I'm looking forward to gluing (or melting) on toslink connectors, to make an optical snake between my recorder racks and my console(s). Because its glass fiber, I can get more distance than plastic fiber. Just need the find the stupid ends LOL.

I used to install this stuff with ST and SC networking connectors back in the day.
 
I don't run any fiber for anything in my studio yet so I'm good there (thank God). I have never run fiber before but I have heard the connectors and couplings are a pain. Sounds like you have been in the game longer than I have. I started pulling cable in the early 90's when I was a teenager and unfortunately working on computers stuck. Great skills to have, but I really don't like the job a whole lot. And on top of that my company seems to have made a habit of moving every other year, so I get to re-wire phone/data every time... Not fun :(
 
Right now my wiring looks about like Mixmkr's. Hopefully it will look like TrackRat's in a few more weeks or months. Well, probably years, who am I kidding.
 
TexRoadkill said:
Right now my wiring looks about like Mixmkr's. Hopefully it will look like TrackRat's in a few more weeks or months. Well, probably years, who am I kidding.
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When I start building the console table (out of 1" square steel, brazed together) I'm going to make sure I have hanger bars and such so I can be neat with the wiring. I've never really had a home or pro studio with organized wiring (it was somewhat neat, but still an embarrassment).

Wiring, well, just sucks. When I get to that point I get to solder 3000 TRS connections per end.

Fun.

I have too much gear.
 
frederic said:
Wiring, well, just sucks. When I get to that point I get to solder 3000 TRS connections per end.
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Hope you don't have to move it! :D
 
The last time I remodeled the studio, I soldered at least 3 to 4 hours a day, every day for almost a month.
 
Track Rat said:
The last time I remodeled the studio, I soldered at least 3 to 4 hours a day, every day for almost a month.
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GASP! All of the guys in my family know how to solder quite well (we all have been in the electronics industry at one time or another), so when I wire mine buddy, you better believe I'm recruiting them!
 
Thats just crazy. You can hire me, I will do it for $50.00 an hour.
Lol:D
 
I will come over during the summer months, you get me there, provide me with a place to crash and food. No more then 5 hours of soldering a day. :p
 
I do this shit for a living (wiring that is:cool: ).
 
mixmkr said:
damn trackrat...you keep showing your wiring, I am going to have to keep showing mine!!
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That's what my place looks like after the "muse" has come and gone in a whirlwind visit.

I call it Black Spaghetti Syndrome.
 
fierojoe said:
Hope you don't have to move it! :D
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Sure do! Turning the console table around so it goes the width of the room rather than the length, and shuffling all the racks around.

After measuring using string, the existing custom homemade snakes are 11" too short :)

So yes.
 
fierojoe said:
Ohhh.... Ouch..... That sucks.... ;)
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Yeeeep LOL

Seems the gods feel I have nothing better to do but spend my life soldering.
 
Well hey! You may be able to take advantage of the bid war that started! Maybe you can recruit some of the members here to do it for you :D
 
fierojoe said:
Well hey! You may be able to take advantage of the bid war that started! Maybe you can recruit some of the members here to do it for you :D
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heh-heh.

Okay, in four weeks, soldering party in NJ !!!! Endless beer and pizza provided!!!
 
frederic said:
heh-heh.

Okay, in four weeks, soldering party in NJ !!!! Endless beer and pizza provided!!!
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Ok, you pay for the arifare (and hookers) and I'll solder a whole weekend straight for pizza and beer.
 
jake-owa said:
Ok, you pay for the arifare (and hookers) and I'll solder a whole weekend straight for pizza and beer.
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Somewhat local people only, who don't need hookers? heh-heh.

I live in an estate section, nothing around here but widows and doctor's wives.

Feel free to hit on any of them :)
 
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