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What is it please ?
30 plus years into doing this and not yet found THE solution for this. mic cable organising …
Gone from Velcro to elastics with knobs to electrical tape to rolling them on cable drums female to male xlr and any other variation I can think off. Currently back at electrical tape but people seem to think it is ok to rip them open and leave residue pieces on the cable
Hate them all …
Someone show me the light please !
Thanks
Chris
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"Sure, let's go on tour — I've still got some hearing left I'd like to obliterate"
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When I deal with cables, it's usually in Outside Broadcast world.
Electrical tape is king there...specifically the Nitto tape.
That seems to be less prone to leaving a horrible sticky residue.
We also try to be nice to the next guy by leaving a "courtesy tab" on the tape, so finding the end doesn't have to be a forensic exercise.
Cheers,
Tim
oh crunch, you enormous dillhole.
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Keep 'em swinging free. I have no cable organisation here whatsoever. Total chaos. But it works. It's not looking good and my place is hell for anybody who loves it neat. I have tons of velcros laying somewhere. I'm probably just too lazy.
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Tape is the devil. I don’t give a coco squirt what ‘brand’ of tape.
Velcor is acceptable, but I feel guilty when the ‘silent velcro’ rips and ends up on the floor. I do like using velcor to attach the cable to the mic stand without doing that thing I see n00bs in live do where they wrap the cable around the mic stand a couple dozen times like they are trying to turn it into an electromagnetic.
Those bungie things with the (usually orange) nut are okay for multipair, I suppose.
Honestly, I wrap them correctly (so when you unwrap them you can toss the cable across the room and it will perfectly extend and makes you feel like you’ve weaponize it) and tie them off a simple taught but not tight knot on one the ends, XLR, 1/4, etc. This is not issueless, but seems to result in the least complications over time.
