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Hey Guys!
I moved to a new house reacently, and im trying to figure out how to setup my studio. i have a closet where i can orgnise my cables, but whatever i do, i always end up in this situation:


I record at home almost every day, and my studio cable setup is ever-changing.
i need a deacent way to store and organise my cables in a neat way in the closet i have.

any suggestions?

my problem is not when im using the cables. its when im storing them...

Hooks, with enough spacing to the next one, and definitely not more than 4 cables per hook. That's how I have it in my studio, and it works quite well. Very long cables still like curl up into a knot when I need them, but that's just their nature and I forgive them. All the ones less than ~15ft don't give me any problems anymore, though.

maybe these tools help :

yep, hooks are great for avoiding chaos .. a wardrobe does this job fine as well.

imo the above one is not very useful.
1st if you have ten in a row you always need to put 9 off to reach the last one. I hated this back then. A simple long nail in the wall holds over 30 cables here and they never knot.
2nd the soldered connections will break much faster because the whole cable is hanging on them

the finger type of hook works well. you can make the hooks out of dowel in board, or use hooks on slatwall or pegboard. you need to become somewhat obsessive about how you handle and wrap the cables. kinked, twisted cables are always more likely to give problems and tangle, than smooth, relaxed ones.

there's a method of coiling the cables which guarantees they won't tangle, even when in a pile(i store a lot of cable in a drawer), but i can't show you over the internet....

basically, the cable get's wrapped in an over/under fashion. you neeed someone to show you, however. it's an easy trick, but not one that you're likely to find in 100 years on your own. if you know someone who wraps cable for TV at big sporting events, or maybe is an engineer at a major studio who apprenticed his way in, he could show you.(that's how i learned it, from a guy who once worked NFL football games)

otherwise, i'll show you the next time you're in town....

"but i can't show you over the internet...."

Well Youtube can
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SpMp_3gg-YI

perfect!!

cables wrapped this way don't tangle and are well behaved. they can be stored in a box or drawer and they come out perfect. this also makes cables last forever, the conductors don't get twisted inside the sheath and the cable has the same curl as on it's original spool. also, you can wind long cables in no time flat using this technique.

yes, same process for the same reason. you can't have problems with the ropes on a cliff face....

great cable winding demo

tom stuff...