PRO TIP! Roadie Wrap Your IEMs
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2021
- Sharing a clip from a recent live Q&A in which a stream member asked me about how I wind my IEM cables. Try this cable wrap technique for yourself! I think it's better for (1) keeping cables tidy, (2) avoiding tangling when un-wrapping, and (3) maintaining the long-term health of a cable.
NOT snake oil. Maybe.
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My life has forever been changed by the roadie wrap.
The apple earpods were programmed to tie themselves in knots when you aren't looking. It's impressive how Apple did that.
When you unwound out it with zero kinks, I may have gasped like a kid at a magic show.
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Same. This is what I needed in my life
@@user-cb5uy1me9e exactly bro!
That's what I call the overhand/underhand method. This is what I do with my guitar cables. And since I'm a custodian for a living, I do this with the vacuum cables as well. Keeps 'em lasting a long time 👌🏼
Fun fact, even though I learned this technique looking up how to wrap an extension cord, I'm still really bad at wrapping extension cords and other long cables. Help me Damaygo!
@@SuperReview Heh heh, I guess you're just not **looks you up and down** worthy to learn this ancient method. Sorry kid 😎
This is how actual roadies and production assistants wrap cables. I was a communication major and this was literally the first lesson on the very first day of class. I just taught my kids how to do it!
(There’s another HUGE advantage you didn’t mention-) but YESSS I’ve been doing this since high school haha I learned it in tech theater class (a class about running live sound & light, building sets) we literally had to pass the test with a rope before we could touch their cables, they’d lay a cable out and show you how it looks bent and twisted, never goes flat. They called it the idiot kink. Wrap it this way, and you never have that problem. The big advantage you didn’t mention, is the fact that if you wrap your cords, this way, you could throw the coil across the stage, and it will perfectly unspool without a single tangle. That was most of the reason we learned it.
Dude, you have made my day. About to try this on EVERY cable in the house 😂
Good practice 👌 Lemme know if it works out!
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The over-under roadie wrap is legit one of the best life hacks ever.
I missed this vid when it was uploaded, but youtube recommended this to me this morning. I can't believe I've never heard about this cable wrapping technique before. It always annoyed me a little bit when the cable unwraps itself no matter how meticulous I've wound it up around my fingers. This is game changer. I need to look out for more "gear care" tips from now on. Thanks for sharing!
Never thought one day i would watch a video on how to wind cables... lol 😅 but wow i learned new things. 👍👍 Thanks for the video!
Also to note, cables have a natural coil to them that matches the spool they were wound onto when they were manufactured. It wants to coil itself into a roll with its own diameter, so let it take its natural shape. It's better for the cable and easier for you.
Good motto for life.
this is what i always do since almost 20 years ago for my guitar and mic cables in my studio. great tips
Wow, I sort of did the "let the cable wind itself up" trick by instinct, but the alternate wind part is new to me and I'll definitely try it. Thanks!
Was reading a comment somewhere where they suggested that if I try using IEMs that I should do a roadie wrap, and then I found this video, to realize that I already do the roadie wrap on many cables if needed, without even realizing that what I was doing had a name... I found out when watching a home building show once on tv, that anytime I wrap up extension cords I should add a quarter twist on every wrap I make while bundling the cord up, to prevent it from looking like a rats nest. I don't remember if they had a name for it, but I never knew or at the very least forgot if I did know, that it was referred to as a roadie wrap at least in the audio biz
The things you learn without even realizing what it is... It never ceases to amaze me...
Been a week since I've started using this...
LIFE CHANGER
THANK YOU!
I don't know why I never researched this technique before! Thanks for the tutorial it is a game changer.
i just ordered my new iem today and this video somehow showed up in my homepage. i had to take out the cable from it's case and do it the way you showed it in the video and it's definitely more neat! thank you for making this video!
Just got the Dunu Titan S for Christmas after seeing your review of them. Found your channel again to learn how to wrap the cable, Thanks!!
Great tip!!! Makes it a lot easier to put the IEM back in their case. Thanks!
Great technic! Found out that 3 fingers wrap works optimal for me with over/under
Having tired of flaked-out device cables, I've picked up the technique-thanks-and will go with it. Here's to longer cable life!
Thank you for this guide! Useful stuff as always
I've been meaning to ask you this for some time, thanks for the explanation!
It's so funny, I have wrapped ever cable I own this way (although I tend to do over/over) for about ten years. You mentioning extension cords is apt because I work in the film industry doing lighting and that is where I learned to wrap cables. Interestingly, I find most sound guys wrap over/over, but its the camera department that tends to wrap over/under.
Frickin video guys.
Very smart stuff, worked like a charm.
Thank you so very much for this video. I'm now going to do this forever with all cables
It will become second nature quickly 🤌
never thought that I'll need this, my life has been changed forever 🤯
classic over/under technique. been doing it with my instrument cables for over 20 years.
Exactly how I thought it would be. I learned this technique during my SNES controller days as a kid from my electric guitar playing brother.
That's a good time to learn it! Most of us just caveman-wrapped the cord around the controller.
Mind blown. Thank you!
Thanks brother. Lifesaver tip
Whoa... did I hear you say "using a hair dryer" to shape the ear hooks on IEMs? Brilliant! My Ultimate Ear Pros need that... thank you!
Thank you for sharing! I'll practise this roadie wrap to learn the hang of it.
Man, this helped me out so much! Just got my first IEM, which came with a storage pouch or however they're called. Couldn't figure out at all how on earth I'd get them in there with the cable included. Of course also how I could get it in while still being able to close the storage pouch.
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I always did the figure 8 wrap to keep it from tangling, I like this way a lot better
Nice tips. Thanks for sharing
Best tip I've seen.
Holy frick, I always did it the "nnngnhh" way, and then found my IEM just tangled up, or in a totally different position that I was before, due to the spring thing, sometimes they fell, now they stay perfectly on the table, I love it!
I have been enlightened with this.
stumbled upon this on my feed, this should be a YT short, its great
The over under technique is great for mic cables and extension cords
This is gold, thanks a ton!
Genius level! Thanks
It's so simple and so smart.Respect
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Thanks! Works very well
This is as life changing as that time I learned to quick tie my shoe laces tbh
Wait there's a way to quick-tie laces?
@@SuperReview Yup, it saves just about 2-3 seconds but it's neat enough for me to subconsciously incorporate to day-to-day life just like your wrap, thanks!
mvp thank you, I remember I saw a video like this a long time ago but I never understood it since it was going too fast
impressive! so simple and useful!!! thnxs!!!
Very nice, very useful. Adopted !
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genius. did not expect this.
This is amazing.
Very helpful, thanks!
Have started doing my assignment! It's going to take a lot of getting used to. It's not going to be easy with the FH3 cable which I find too uncooperative to twist, neither with NiceHCK cables which I find too soft for me to twist. Practice makes perfect. (And practice I might with garden hose even!) Thanks!
It can work with FH3 cable, though it is indeed a fighter.
That's smart. I'm trying this trick now.
The object is to keep it from twisting while you wrap it - in your "bad way" example, you're rigidly holding the wire with your right hand; if you let the buds dangle, and counter any twisting naturally, you get the same result. Wrap my flat-wire cables this way daily.
Life changing. I owe you a beer... THANK YOU
im here fighting with my fiio fh3's cable lmao, also would be awesome to see your IEM collection!
Definitely a useful technique for FH3 cable, though it's still a fighter.
This is life changer
Finally the secret of dealing with the tangly bastards. My life has meaning now..
wow thanks my man !
Once upon a time I was the electrical safety petty officer on board a US Navy guided missile destroyer. My job for a little while was making sure all of the handheld electric tools were in good shape, and I learned a lot about cord management. The number one way to help electrical stuff last longer is just don't put stress on the power cord. I had to fight my wife for 20 years because leaving the cord on her vacuum loose and stress free irked her. For some reason a lot of people aren't happy unless power cords are wrapped so tight it breaks them.
LOL
my old guitar teacher taught me this method many years ago. can confirm everything he said
I love that I got an earwax removal tool ad after this.
All important skills to learn.
Holy sh*t it's remarkable, thank you very much
dis be so underrated ty
Tried this with my sony mdrs. I got it right the first time I tried it.
🤯 thank you mate!
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Nobel Prize for the man
Thank you again!
Ha I had to teach people how to that with water hoses when I ran a walmart deli. They have a hose on a rack on the wall for cleaning the floor at the end of the day, and if you hang it on the rack right it unwinds itself without twisting when you use it. Do it wrong and it takes 15 minutes longer to do the floors because you're fighting the hose.
Positive comment for super posititive video!
This is probably a good alternative as I have ruined a good pair of earphones with the "bad" way of looping
For IEMs with a harder cables I just make a metal sign and make figure 8 shaped loops and I have a velcro near the jack to tie it. You can instantly unwrap them without a single tangle!
learned this technic when i was working as roadie lmao, all those microphones and speaker cables.... those were the times.
When i saw this the 1st time on ur instagram or sumn, I never went back 😂
It is the way to happy cables.
Same way you'd wrap a hose, just let it follow it's own natural curve. I didn't know this was a secret lol. I've always coiled everything that can be coiled like this, I just thought that's how people did it.
I do that to all of my cables, learned that from a guitar equipment tips and tricks.
Holy shit, thanks for this video
Thank you so much for this im a newborn man now
Wow, master skill, haha. Hey, would have been great to have a small guide on shaping the earhooks via hairdryer, actually. I've wanted to try it out for a while, due to one of the earhooks on my only cable being bent horizontally and actually pushing the IEM out of the ear, but I'm afraid of damaging the cable somehow.
I'm not as good at that :P
Ok! I think I got it! (nope :c, I stretched it and got tangled, I gotta try a few more times to get it right) Cool video!
this is also how cameraman rolls their cable, I'm a cameraman and only figure it out now 😅. been doing it the wrong way.. now I know how
Genius!
thank you so much
Thank you
It took me a little while to comprehend what to actually do. The best way to explain it is alternate between the length of the wire going in front of itself and then alternate to behind itself the next pass.
BRB, winding up all my cables in this fashion now.
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this is magic
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I use over and under to wrap all cables except for earphone cables, I hate how awkward it gets when you get to the split. Is there a different solution? I’ve been using the figure 8, but I’m pretty sure that kind of damages the cable as well.
I’m really interested on your thought on the Sony MH755. Is it worth the hype, and is the built quality that notorious?
They're very good for the price. Build quality is fine, they're lightweight plastic but sturdy -- only "notorious" aspect is the cable, which is far too short for normal use. If you can get one recabled for under $50, it's worth it IMO. But I wouldn't replace a Starfield with them or anything.
Which lavalier mic do you use? Anything better than the Boya?
I think it's called Giant Squid Audio. It was an old recommendation from the UA-cam channel by Curtis Judd. It's pretty old.
Thanks.
damn never knew about this lifechanging
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awesome blon shirt
My life is complete.
This is one of the ways you'll see electricians coil cables. IEMs and extension cords are one thing, but when you need to keep big lengths of thick wire coiled you better make it tidy or it'll be a SERIOUS P.I.T.A to deal with later... nothing like trying to wrestle to untangle a mess of 250KCMIL or bigger cables 😂
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LOL TLDW; DO IT LIKE AN EXTENSION CORD. This should have been a short but watched anyways. Ty sir🤙