Okay, microphone cables. There are many schools of thought about microphone cables. My personal preference, of course, is coiling them in the traditional BBC training method, which is very simple, but far from easy. Everybody thinks they know how to call a cable. But if you see somebody calling a cable like this, you know that they are not a musician or a sound engineer because that is a way to damage your cable. My preferred way of calling a cable is very simple process but quite difficult to master.
Watch carefully. There's one anti clockwise turn as a clockwise turn some my left hand I'm twisting the cable one way than the otherwise so right over left, left over right The reason for this well there are several reasons for this. First of all, it's a noise cancelling coil. Therefore, if you only use a few meters of it, you can leave the rest of it neatly coiled on the stage maybe even taped up without it causing any undue noise problems or becoming an electromagnet. The second reason is that when you throw the cable out, it doesn't kink so I can stand at my stage box, throw the cable towards its destination, and it lies as you can see on the stage without any kinks or turns or knots in it. Nice and simple way of doing it.
Some people find it very difficult to do it first. It's just a case of practice. The other thing about it is please don't tie knots in cables. It causes strain injuries around where the cable meets the connector. a roll of PVC tape is our preferred method. Some people like to tie bits of string to their cables.
I personally find that very irritating What's required is one turn of the PVC type. And that's the cable ready to go in the box. One turn please not three or four because we don't want to damage the cable by having to put a lot of strain on it breaking too much tape. You'd be surprised how much weight four or five wraps of the PVC type will hold. So there it is ready? That's the easy, simple way of calling cables.
Right over left, left over right, right over left, left over right. You don't have to do it this way. It's my preferred choice. And as you can see, it's quick and easy to do. So there it is. How to call it a cable.