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Wrapping Cables,

Doll

Doll

Versus Doll
Jan 31, 2010
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Saskatchewan
#1
Okay, so my gigging band has over the last few years has given me a bit of a hard time because I tried to give them a lesson in wrapping cords after seeing them stretching their cables around their elbows, I even had a race with a guitarist to prove a point anyways, they didn't take to it so positively. For the past 2 or 3 months the one guitarist has started using one of my extra cables. borrowing is not the issue, anyways I make a crack in passing about it and he says he just took a good working cable from the communal box. This cable is like 7 years old by the way. So last practice my other guitarist started complaining about his cable and it looks awful. I laughed to myself before saying something like, that's because you don't bloody wrap them properly. The drummer and I found the humour in this.

Anyways it is really very obvious which cables are mine in that band, and again they are usually older than the other guys. I just thought I would share my knowledge to the talkbass world as I haven't seen any other threads on this minor and simple issue.

I was able to quickly find a good video on youtube for the same technique I, and hopefully many of you already use.

101 - How to Wrap Cables - YouTube
 
#2
no one wraps my cables that doesn't know how to over under them. Considering that I'm also a PA provider thats a lot of cables that I often roll up by myself but I'd rather do the work on my own than have to untangle hundreds of feet of cable at the next gig.
 
#5
My whole originals band is the same way. Both guitarists couldn't care any less, and it shows. One of them constantly has issues with bad cables too, but he just doesn't get it.

We're not gigging right now, so I don't care. I've totally given up on him anyways.
 
#7
You get fired from certain rigging crews if you drop a 300' line with knots in it because you did not wrap it properly... that's an hour's work down the tube, easy. I also worked for an audio contractor who made people wrap a cable during the interview. Guess who gets the jobs with him.

I also saw someone wrapping a fiber-optic snake cable like a dope, and the Monitor Engineer lost his mind. It was epic. Them are 'spensive.
 
#8
the over/under thing still kicks my ass; i can wrap 'em that way just fine, but when it comes time to unwrap, i have a 50/50 chance of starting with the wrong end and throwing out a cable with a nice row of little overhand knots all down it :mad:
 
#9
walterw said:
the over/under thing still kicks my ass; i can wrap 'em that way just fine, but when it comes time to unwrap, i have a 50/50 chance of starting with the wrong end and throwing out a cable with a nice row of little overhand knots all down it :mad:
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When you throw it out, throw it so that the plane of the loop points in the direction of your throw, not across it. In this way, it should not matter what end you throw it from.
 

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