Originally Posted By: Pat Marr
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It's also very important to know how to properly "roll" your cables, using the over/under technique that stagehands use:

I do use this technique, and it does a good job of keeping a cable from getting tangled with itself.

I also have a pre-wired rack

In spite of that, cables in a suitcase that gets jostled in transit tend to tangle with EACH OTHER no matter how they are wrapped. The bags keep the inter-tangling from happening.

I once heard a band mate describe it like this:

"trying to take one cable out of a tangled mess is like trying to take a small sip out of a spittoon... it all comes out in one big glob"

If you then wrap Velcro round the properly rolled cable, you pull it from the pile by grabbing the rolled cable where the Velcro is. No tangling. But ziplock baggies would work as well.

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