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!
Video production, too. I remember when I learned this on my first gig (a LONG time ago) it kind of blew my mind. (yes I know I'm replying to a year-old comment lol).
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!
(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.
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!
This video reminded me of when I learned this technique over twenty years ago when I first started working in a commercial photography studio. I have passed this knowledge on to several assistants and I use it on all the cables I have, all of which have lasted "forever". This video is great advice!
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...
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.
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!
Gonna try this on my commercial vacuum cleaner too - I have to spend a good 10mins untangling the damn thing every time I go to use it. I even purchased an additional stick vacuum for those days when I simply cannot face those cable knots. Thank you!
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.
@@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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 😂
@@SuperReview Please do it! You can overlay your voice explanation over the original sound. I have couple of TRN (actually three) cables and all of them made wrong: all are sticking out sideways and off the ear, they directed in opposite directions from head and I can do nothing about it. (I hope I've explained correctly and well enough: English is not my language)
Me trying to do this with the CHU and just finding out the cable doesn't wanna twist like that. I will make this work somehow. Edit: it's slow at work so I spent some time getting it down and even though this cable is a bit difficult to work with I got it! It's so satisfying, too.
@@SuperReview Yeah, it's got a mind of it's own for sure. I have a couple sets on the way that'll let me change cables out though. Exposing my wallet to the idea of cable shopping as well as iem shopping. Seriously, thanks again for this vid. The tangling of the Chu cable get to be a bit much sometimes.
My life has forever been changed by the roadie wrap.
When you unwound out it with zero kinks, I may have gasped like a kid at a magic show.
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@@គឹមឈន់ឈុន exactly bro!
The apple earpods were programmed to tie themselves in knots when you aren't looking. It's impressive how Apple did that.
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!
Video production, too. I remember when I learned this on my first gig (a LONG time ago) it kind of blew my mind. (yes I know I'm replying to a year-old comment lol).
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 😎
(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.
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 🤌
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!
This video reminded me of when I learned this technique over twenty years ago when I first started working in a commercial photography studio. I have passed this knowledge on to several assistants and I use it on all the cables I have, all of which have lasted "forever". This video is great advice!
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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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...
This video wasn't what I was searching for, but man, I'm glad I stumbled on it.
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
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!
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!
Gonna try this on my commercial vacuum cleaner too - I have to spend a good 10mins untangling the damn thing every time I go to use it. I even purchased an additional stick vacuum for those days when I simply cannot face those cable knots.
Thank you!
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!!
classic over/under technique. been doing it with my instrument cables for over 20 years.
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.
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!
Great technic! Found out that 3 fingers wrap works optimal for me with over/under
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!
Analyzing this frame-by-frame really helped, thanks!
I don't know why I never researched this technique before! Thanks for the tutorial it is a game changer.
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.
never thought that I'll need this, my life has been changed forever 🤯
Great straightforward explanation. Thank you sir!
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!
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!
Been a week since I've started using this...
LIFE CHANGER
THANK YOU!
I always did the figure 8 wrap to keep it from tangling, I like this way a lot better
The over under technique is great for mic cables and extension cords
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!
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.
stumbled upon this on my feed, this should be a YT short, its great
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
Finally the secret of dealing with the tangly bastards. My life has meaning now..
Great tip!!! Makes it a lot easier to put the IEM back in their case. Thanks!
I was taught this by WKTV when setting up a robotics competition at my High School.
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.
Nice video, I will be winding my earphone cables like that. Thanks.
I've been meaning to ask you this for some time, thanks for the explanation!
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.
Thanks brother. Lifesaver tip
I love that I got an earwax removal tool ad after this.
All important skills to learn.
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!
Thank you for sharing! I'll practise this roadie wrap to learn the hang of it.
Mind blown. Thank you!
Best tip I've seen.
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
I have been enlightened with this.
You have changed my life 😂 THANKS
genius. did not expect this.
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 gold, thanks a ton!
This is probably a good alternative as I have ruined a good pair of earphones with the "bad" way of looping
my old guitar teacher taught me this method many years ago. can confirm everything he said
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.
Tried this with my sony mdrs. I got it right the first time I tried it.
Life changing. I owe you a beer... THANK YOU
Thank you brother. Good infomation
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.
Thank you for this guide! Useful stuff as always
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.
Nice tips. Thanks for sharing
learned this technic when i was working as roadie lmao, all those microphones and speaker cables.... those were the times.
Thank you so much for this im a newborn man now
Very smart stuff, worked like a charm.
What’ up with these Sony mh755..., detachable cable... it is beautiful I just got them I wonder what to do to them...😁❤️
There are tutorials if you can solder real small.
It's so simple and so smart.Respect
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Nobel Prize for the man
This is life changer
Genius level! Thanks
BRB, winding up all my cables in this fashion now.
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Holy sh*t it's remarkable, thank you very much
Thanks! Works very well
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
When i saw this the 1st time on ur instagram or sumn, I never went back 😂
It is the way to happy cables.
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
The Art of Cable Management
Because you're worth it.
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.
I do that to all of my cables, learned that from a guitar equipment tips and tricks.
My CCA Hydro has a thicc cable, it is a very well behaved cable
Can you please make a video on Bending ear hooks of iem with hair dryer? It will be of great help. Thank you
Maybe. Hope a hair dryer sound isn't too loud on mic.
Very nice, very useful. Adopted !
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That's smart. I'm trying this trick now.
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 killed 3 IEMS cause of doing that wrap, nothing lasted 3 months. I bought a new pair, hopefully they last longer with your method
Let me know!
Video starts at 2:50
God bless you.
LOL TLDW; DO IT LIKE AN EXTENSION CORD. This should have been a short but watched anyways. Ty sir🤙
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 😂
Positive comment for super posititive video!
Very helpful, thanks!
wow thanks my man !
Do you have video on how to bend earhooks?
No, haven't done that -- it involves a hair dryer, not sure how to do that with a live microphone.
@@SuperReview Please do it! You can overlay your voice explanation over the original sound.
I have couple of TRN (actually three) cables and all of them made wrong: all are sticking out sideways and off the ear, they directed in opposite directions from head and I can do nothing about it. (I hope I've explained correctly and well enough: English is not my language)
Me trying to do this with the CHU and just finding out the cable doesn't wanna twist like that.
I will make this work somehow.
Edit: it's slow at work so I spent some time getting it down and even though this cable is a bit difficult to work with I got it! It's so satisfying, too.
The Chu cable is among the very worst I've ever used, very hard to roadie wrap. Bravo.
@@SuperReview Yeah, it's got a mind of it's own for sure. I have a couple sets on the way that'll let me change cables out though. Exposing my wallet to the idea of cable shopping as well as iem shopping.
Seriously, thanks again for this vid. The tangling of the Chu cable get to be a bit much sometimes.
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What's the best Bluetooth... thing?
I've searched for FiiO UTWS3 but I can't get it on AliExpress
I don't use a lot of Bluetooth, but Qudelix seems to be the best at the moment.