11 Tips for Stage Cable Management for Live Bands and Presentations

Route your audio cables neatly and efficiently for live sound reinforcement setups. Whether you're in a cover band, a praise and worship band at church, doing production for concerts or presentations, or a full scale touring act, cable management is an important part of the stagecraft process. Microphone, monitor speakers, and other audio cables can become trip hazards or slow down setup and tear down, as well as just make for a messy stage, when not properly addressed.
Much about onstage cable management is simply thinking about the goals of pinning the stage for the talent before you even start connecting the audio equipment. Have an actual plan that follows professional stagecraft practices and concepts. Think about the best places for cable runs, mixer and snake cable placement, minimizing exposure to walkways, and maximizing neatness. I've seen many bands or inexperienced techs simply start connecting things randomly, with no thought about neatness, the need for audio troubleshooting ability later, safety, or setup changes that might occur before they are actually finished setting up the audio equipment.
Worse, with the musicians or inexperienced techs acting independently during this process, with no overall plan and concept, it can quickly spiral into a mess of cables that are hard to decipher and looks awful for the talent and the audience, and easily could be a trip hazard. And these days, with live streaming growing in popularity, bad cable management will look awful on camera as well.
While this is specifically talking about the stage, this info can be applied to FOH amps and speakers as well.
Use this for clubs, auditoriums, churches, festivals, ballrooms, conference halls and anywhere live audio is being used.
Proper cable management and stagecraft is what this live audio tutorial is all about.
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