Clipping your cable to the bass

westland · #1 10-30-2006, 04:40 PM

I've seen a number of bassists in concert (in fact maybe every performing bassist actually does this) who clip their amplifier cable to the back of the guitar somehow, so that it doesn't accidently pull out, or get in the way when they move around. I can't really see how they've done this, and I'm sure someone on the board can tell me what is used to hold the cable in place.

JacksonsMen · #2 10-30-2006, 05:05 PM

yeah, put your bass on get the cable and loop it between your body and the strap, plug it in and your done

westland · #3 10-30-2006, 05:08 PM

.... you mean around the straplock ... sure that makes sense. But the players I've seen seem to have some clip ... nothing seems to move at all, and the cable seems to go onto the back of the bass somewhere.

I suppose I should just go up after a show and find out how it is done

JacksonsMen · #4 10-30-2006, 05:15 PM

thats a wireless pack clipped to the strap

RWP · #5 10-30-2006, 05:22 PM

There is a thread here somewhere on wireless systems. Once you have tried one you will never go back to hard wired.

tplyons · #6 10-30-2006, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by RWP

There is a thread here somewhere on wireless systems. Once you have tried one you will never go back to hard wired.

I have, and I have. Many times.

dls59 · #7 10-30-2006, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by tplyons

I have, and I have. Many times.

Same here.

westland · #8 11-01-2006, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SMASH

No straplock in my case.

I've never seen anything like a clip on the back of the bass, and I go to an awful lot of shows. Always a loop around the strap in my experience.

Maybe it's a trend in HK? Maybe you've seen guys that have instruments with the plug in back like some Ritters have?

IMO the only way to have the cable out of your way, short of a roadie sidestage to manually let out cable and pull it in as you move around which some bands do have, is of course wireless or to have it to the side as I describe. If you have it attached to the back, you'll trip on it when moving backwards I'd expect.

I saw this most recently when Rikard Malmet (who lives here in HK) came to the University. He may in fact have had a wireless system. I'm going to ask him about lessons when the semester is over, and I can ask him then. He was playing on a Warwick 4, .... I suspect you guys are right about the looping.

Audiophage · #9 11-01-2006, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by westland

I suspect you guys are right about the looping.

Most definitely. Thats all you need to do, no clips or anything like that.

superjesus · #10 11-01-2006, 10:04 PM

actually, i think dunlop or planet waves sold a "cable clip" a few years ago. it was a little velcro strap witha hole for a strap button. it basicaly held the cable the same way that a strap does, only with velcro. and it only cost $9.99!!!

JacksonsMen · #11 11-03-2006, 01:15 AM

um, the reason you dont see those around anymore is because people with brains realized that for the low cost of free you could do the same thing by looping the cord between the body of the bass and the strap

Pbassred · #12 11-03-2006, 01:08 PM

My TRB5 Mk1 had a jack socket that pointed UP. If you looped through the strap it just heaved it out of the socket, But if you didn't the leverage on the socet bent the contacts.

I did hate having it route it a new out hole.

PauperBoy · #13 11-03-2006, 02:30 PM

I use the monster 90 degree/straight jack. The angled jack goes into the p bass and up behind the strap. Keeps the cable behind me, I've taken a header off a stage stepping on the cable hanging in front of me and causing me to trip.

I loop the straight jack end a couple of times around the amp rack and secure it to the amp rack, my GK head does not react well if the cable is stepped on and wiggles the jack in the head. My wife however...