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Originally Posted by TheMutt  +1 It's mostly in how you wrap it up. If you wind it tight, it's gonna hold that shape and coil up when you want it to remain straight. If you wrap it up with twists in it, they're eventually going to stay. If you (God forbid) fold it in half to make a figure-8 and then bind it together, the kinks are going to stick.
The way that you store your cables is also important. If it's tossed in a bag along with a ton of other gear weighing down on it, or in a bag that gets beat up, it's going to affect the cable inside. I'm not saying that you actually need to get a special case to hold your cables, but it's something to keep in mind.  |
In general I'm not a fan of that "roadie wrap"; if you wrap a cable that way and the end falls through the loop, when you lay it out it will have a series of overhand knots in it. I use a simple single twist per wrap which (in spite of what some folks may tell you) does not store torsional tension on the cable. Yes, if I pull it straight off my hand when I unwrap it it's got twists in it, but I shake them out gently before I use the cable. I store my cables that way and I have 30 year old cables that are doing just fine.
If I'm neatening up the stage and coiling cables which are connected at both ends, then the over-under method works great.
YMMV and DSFDF.
BTW, I do NOT tie an overhand knot in the end of the cable to keep the loop together; I have damaged cables that way. I got some Velcro cable ties at Home Depot that work really well and they are way cheap.
Also BTW, there is no "proper" or "improper" way to wrap cables; there's only what works and what doesn't.
