How to Build Your Own Snakes (Not Just Audio Snakes!)
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2016
- Audio snakes are available all over the place… but what if you've got more than audio? Here's how I built my own snakes for audio, pedals, USB, Firewire, video, and more. This is how I cut my setup time IN HALF at every show I play. PRODUCT LINKS POSTED BELOW…
BRAIDED NYLON SLEEVING: amzn.to/2fxYIso
1" CLEAR HEAT SHRINK: amzn.to/2fUdtty
1" BLACK HEAT SHRINK: amzn.to/2fsqkjS
Matthew Ebel Music and Merch: store.matthewebel.com/
CD's: matthewebel.com/cdbaby
Get music and cool stuff every month from me on Patreon: matthewebel.com/officers
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THE GEAR:
MY KEYBOARD: amzn.to/2gI44GR
MY MIC: amzn.to/2gjkzVN
MY STUDIO INTERFACE: amzn.to/2ghY8AT
MY STAGE INTERFACE: amzn.to/2g0K5yF
MY MINI INTERFACE: amzn.to/2gI28Os
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Great video! Wonderful tips, Matthew! Thanks so much for sharing them so eloquently with the rest of us!
Great to see you again! You're looking dashing as always!
Emily Amadhia King *Blushes* Aww thanks. :)
Thanks, a great cable sleeving for this is Techflex with lots of colors and design.
This is sage advice... I run live broadcasts, multicams, record audio, and I'm a drummer. I have made SO many snakes with this stuff... The trick at first was getting the right diameter. I started way to skinny and had to buy a second that was thicker. Good thing I needed both for different applications. I think they were 1" and 1 1/2". You can also get one that opens on the side with Velcro.
Sharing this with my friend that does music on stage as well. Thanks for sharing the idea.
Awesome! Yeah, this is something I should've done a LONG time ago.
It is so nifty that they have a zillion different kinds of plugs to connect to one kind of copper wire...keeps everything nice and chaotic...
Freaking brilliant.
So stupid question but the braided cable and the heat shrink are the same size?
to avoid the braided nylon to pop out of the heat shrink, you should use glue lined heat shrink ;)
Hi Matthew. Thanks for your video. I need to make a snake for my live keyboard setup and wondered if you have any advice on how to take the strain off of all the cables within their individual input connectors? The overall weight once you've got 6 or 8 cables will of course be strenuous long term on your sockets so I wonder if you have any recommendations? Maybe loops that can hook onto the stand someway?
Include a velcro tie on the end, and wrap it to your keyboard stand, reducing strain.
what did you use to feed the cords through
How do you run cables through that, especially really long ones? You can buy this braided sleeving in extremely long lengths and I'm wondering how you'd get cables through one end to the other.
my trick for this is a tape measure. Extend it out through the tube, tape a pull string to it, then let it retract. Ite the string to your bundle of cables and pull them through. Def helps to have 2 -3 people. 1 holds the end of the flex, one feeds the cable in, one pulls. I use adhesive heat shrink on the ends, think heat shrink tube filled with hot glue. it soaks into the flex and keeps it from pulling out of the heat shrink over time.
You sir are a lifesaver. Thanks a lot!
Thanks so much for this tip. One question though: how easy is it to swap a cable if one of the things break? You'd have to redo the who snake again wouldn't you?
its not too bad. lay out the whole snake and flatten the cables out. Cut off both heat shrinks and use the bad cable to pull in the new one. As long as the cables have not twsted themselves together over time, it is a fairly easy task.
Currently I am ordering parts for a 300' six channel ethercon foh snake, with a piece of 10/3 thrown in for for power. I don't think I'm going to be able to use this stuff for my snake, but nice video nonetheless.
Man..... How much I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate those snakes... especially at the end of the venue....
how thick should the mesh be if i need to wrap 2" circumference of cables? I'd guess 1" right?
You gotta ask the guys at Weaver Auto Parts;;^D.
What is the name this xlr wair
So, use Braided Radiator Hose Sleeve...Nice!!!
Talk about Heavy Metal ^!!^
Can you make me one of those what I want is for my speakers power cable my controller I want to run it all in one one big table how much would you charge me make that for me
Well... off the Lowe's lol
I would call this a cable loom? I wouldn’t consider it a snake
Fuck me, I'm a pro technician and FOH, and I've never seen videos snake in my life. WHY? I do NOT know. Also, get some used bike rubber chambers!! Indes-truc-ti-bles. Just need a lot of XLR? Get a couple 25'vers and run them through that bike tire chamber, and then heat-gun it. Done in *minutes*.
Lol
this video is misleading :P