I have been playing guitar for over 30 years and I'm still crap at wrapping up my guitar cables. It was a running joke in one band I was in, with the bass player giving me lessons at the end of each gig. I shall try this technique. Thanks.

Nice video .... however......: The best is the "over and under" method. The twisting is alternated between away then towards you, and alternate the placing of the new loop over, then under the formed prior loops. This will prevent any "memory twisting" as done on this video, which in time can weaken the cable. Using the over and under, the cable will naturally straighten when you unwind for use, which will make it easier to roll again to pack up.

@sythe77

6 ай бұрын

Wrong. NEVER over under an audio cable. Thank you.

@mattconwaytgr

4 ай бұрын

Yup: always over-under any cable (power/audio/guitar, even rope) over 1-2 metres long; it extends their life and prevents tangling. Easy test: put the loop on the floor and walk away with one end.. it should spool nice and flat.

My method is good too, strewn on the floor! Always ready!

@gohjohan

3 жыл бұрын

No because it will be stepped on!

i never knew i was doing it wrongly all these years!! Thanks Justin, will be doing this from now on!

Thank you! I've been trying to figure that simple task out forever and just couldn't get the hang of it! My cables are now nicely wound. :)

THANK YOU JUSTIN...That was $1 million tip oh I love it, the twist away from yourself & folds in beautifully.

Thanks, Justin; I am a composer and I know music but I am all thumbs with cables, etc. -- so I appreciate your clear and articulate explanations!!

I usually recommend the "under and over" method. The big advantage in my experience is that the cable doesn't develop a "memory" from being rolled the same direction each time. So it doesn't develop loops which become rat's nests over time. Given the price of good guitar leads these days (!), it's worth the extra few minutes to learn it. Becomes muscle memory pretty quickly. For example, KZread video 0yPcJD7RVuY

So simple, yet so brilliant. Invest in a good cable. At the very least, when you're troubleshooting, you can eliminate the cable straight away. If you have a cheap POS, the you'll always be wondering.

Good tip - my teacher in electrical shop taught me that 50 years ago. When I unroll them, I feed them out hand-over-hand, so no twist. Oddly enough, I store my water hoses in a figure 8 configuration. You're doing 2 twists each cycle - half turn right and half turn left. Net effect of zero.

i have looked at many of guitar wraping tutorial, but his is the best one, most logical for a beginer like me. Great job

This is the technique I was looking for. Thank you Justin.

Wow, thanks a lot for this simple yet really useful video. I've been playing guitar for 7 years not and I did not know this. At this very moment I have a shorted out cable...so when i get a new one, i'll definitely treat it with care as you demonstrated in this video...

These are great. It's like the little things no one ever tells you, but everyone seems to know.

I've been playing guitar since 1967 and I never knew this. Thank you, mate!

7 years later and I just found this and it was a ton of help thank you.

These quick tips are actually proving really important for me. Thanks Justin :)

Surely makes a lot of sense. The idea of velcro is the best perhaps. Thank you very much dear Justin. Bless you dear.

I agree with Keld - one twisted as you show, then one normal coil - then your cable had no kinks, and rolls out straight, unknotted every time. Done it that way since first shown by a pro 50 years ago!

This is the best guitar cable cooling video I have ever seen. Thanks

LLOOOOVVVEE this!!! Thank you SO much! No one has been able to communicate this as well as you! Will be able to help out better after the gig this weekend and not be a "useless" vocalist! (-: Cheers!

Yes, the velcro tie helps a lot. I would never make a knot in my cable.

even though I already know most of the stuff shown I really appreciate that you do dedicated videos for this. this definitely helps a lot of viewers. great job justin!

Liked the sun part, never thought of that

There is a big problem with wraping cables around your elbow. When you do that, you automatically twist the cable, so after a couple of wraping like that you end up with totally twisted cable, that tends to tangle. Also can damage the "inside" of the cable. Justins method is great, and i love he's not going into all that "roadie wrapping" bs. Cheers!

There is an even easier way, grab both ends, then you have half a length, grab both ends and keep repeating this until you can tie it into a flat knot loosely :) it never gets tangled! But thnx for the tip! love your videos!

Try holding both jack ends in your palm and then rolling it in the same way, the loop at the end you pass through the center twice it stays together and to unwind just pass the loop back through, works with earbud headphones too

Nice video! I've been told that rolling a cable the wrong way reduces its lifespan, and I've been looking for a good way to do it.

The way I learned to "store" my cables is: You grab both ends, with the guitar/amp inputs. Lift them up, grab the 'U'-shape (rest of the cable) near the floor, bring it to your hand up in the air. Straighten the cable, the whole length. Repeat that until you have a metre (3 feet) long cable left. Now you take both ends of the cable (should have like 4-6 layers of cable in both hands) in each hand and you tie it like the first knot when tying your shoes. That shit is never going to tangle up. Whats the longevity of the cables? I was years for me. Longer than strings last (even if you never change them before they break).

Yes please. The around the arm method puts a terrible twist in my garden hose and extension lead and guitar leads and..... lots of other things :)

Thank you Justin! As always, most helpful! Greetings from Indianapolis, IN USA

Hi Justin, I'm posting a comment over five years after this video was uploaded so I imagine that the likelihood of you reading this is slim but I hope somebody reads it and benefits from it. I learned to coil rope the way that you coiled your cable when I was a Sea Cadet over 40 years ago so when I started playing guitar, I naturally coiled my cables the same way. It is not a bad way to do it and infinitely better than coiling cables around your hand and elbow as I see so many people do and which can be dangerous if done with rope as it is effectively tying the person to the rope so if anything happens at the other end, there could be trouble. Anyway, the way that you do it is fine but it has an inherent flaw in that every time the cable is twisted to make a loop, it is loading a kink into the cable so that unless the cable is run out very carefully, the kinks will knot it up. I learned a similar but better way when I did firefighting training in the early 1980s and noticed that firemen rolled their hoses in such a way that they never kinked and could be deployed extremely quickly and applied that method to as many applications as possible - including my guitar cables. The method is pretty much the same but start by making sure that the cable has no kinks in it (you should only have to do this once - ever!), then take both ends and hold them in one hand so that the jacks are pointing in the same direction and then coil them together just as you did in the video until you end with a loop (the mid point of the cable) and then use a velcro fastener just as you have here. All the kinks in one half of the cable will cancel out those in the other and when it comes to using the cable, you can simply plug one end into the amp and extend the cable. This works especially well with long cables. I showed this to a professional bass player I used to know and when I bumped into him twenty years later, practically the first words he said were to thank me and that he had never coiled his cables any other way since and he had been evangelising about it.

this is an excellent lesson. thank you for your generosity!

This man is a genius.

These little tips are GENIOUS! Thank you so much for these, and all the vids as well! Really useful! Greets from Finland! :)

Damn man you are the best. You think of everything!

The hot sun tip seems to work very well. Thanks, J.S.!

I'm joining the herd of people in favor of the over-under method/technique/practice for health of the cable, and for kink free unrolling.

that is a great tip. Now all my cables are all rolled up.

uaoooo...the style of the Justin..!!!!! So good

When you see videos like these.. you can tell that Justin isn't just a guitar player.. he's a professor.

Thank you!!! Thought I was just incapable 🤣

I love these little quick tips Justin.

"Figure 8" coiling in stage/pro sound-tech industry is used to pack away heavy, large, long mulit-cores into flight-case trunks (large boxes). After years working as a sound engineer/stage-tech I have never seen it used anywhere else. Over-under method used for signal/data cables. Simple.

You cover it all Justin!

hey justin .. got a request ... can u plz do a quick tip video on how and why do some artists put up rubber band or just a simple band on the nut - headstock part of their guitar . thanx

Yeah, it's better in the long run, I think - but people normally don't take the time to learn to do it right - so it often ends up like Justin shows ;-))

An eighty year old accordian taught me that you should keep your inputs next to eachother and they would last longer. Both sound good to me.

What a GREAT quick tip!

I use the over and under for all cables and hoses. It follows the natural flow of the structure and unravels with ease. Also, the cable doesn't jerk and twist when using the over-under method. If you want a real mind-bender, try learning the "electrician's wrap" for electric cords. (at least I think that's the proper term).

Years of throwing a cast net makes this very easy lol.

actually, if i can weigh in on this...the "under and over" is not a figure 8 method of wrapping cables..the figure 8 method of wrapping cables is used more in the live scene when wrapping camera cables for live concerts and all that, when the camera moves the cable unwraps nicely without getting tangled in a studio situation, all the studios do either a under over or over over method of wrapping cables

I "fold" my cables, I take both ends in one hand and then fold the bend towards them. Then I keep folding smaller bends until it's about 1 1/2 foot. When I take them out, I take both ends again and they just fold back out.

Sweet video! I already knew a variation of this trick, where every other twist I turn it towards myself. Not really sure if there's a real difference, I don't see why there would be.

The "under and over" method is in fact the "8" bend togather along the waistline

Now I'm curious and need to see this figure 8 method. Thanks for the tips!

Gotta say If you do it the way Justin recommends you do in fact get kinks when you lay them out. I agree with AlcantaraAlberto 100% you hit the nail on the head buddy.

Great, simple idea, thanks!

Love this! Thankyou

Question-Is there any reason not to leave your instrument plugged in to your amp when it's not in use and everything is off? As in will that damage cables/inputs, or can I be lazy?

thks justin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You'd be surprised. I've fucked up 4 different cables by not properly trying them up properly. Learning methods like these can save a guy some money.

VERY USEFUL!

Great, so simple idea!

The knot was the only thing i was missing. Velcro is the way forward

you just saved the day! thanks

good thinking

What length of cable do you reccomend for at home? Im thinking 10ft or 20? I dont want it to be so short that i cant move around on the sofa. Thanks. I love all your tutorials and song covers by the way, awesome. Looking forward to getting my yamaha apxt2 soon.

Thanks.

Quick and dirty trick, which is suitable for long cables -- just wrap the coils around your elbow. Basicly, using almost the same technique, but your forearm will be the ruler of equal length coils -- coils won't be hanging in the air, but winded around your arm. Once you finish -- just release your palm, and take resulting coils off. Drawback -- size of coil is big enough, but you can twist it into figure eight afterwards and fold it into half.

i'm supposed to do this every time i stop/start playing guitar? i'd be doing this like 5 times per day lol.

Nice coiling technique... wondering what else you know how to roll Justin ;O) I wouldn't want to put a knot in it at the end though as it is asking for trouble over time particularly with superior braided shield rather than spiral shield cables and not good for the polyethylene signal insulation either.

Meh, if I lay down anything on my driveway someone is bound to steal it, otherwise, thanks for the tip, Justin!

Twist and shout

Interesting, thank you Justin

Hello justin got an idea for a video I have a gibson les paul and looking for a good guitar stand to put it on only for when I am playing got any better ones to choose over others. Please help it s a mine field out there. I am a little nervous about protecting the headstock, when it is sittting.

I just love your tubes.xx

I feel ridiculous watching this, but my cables never stuck the way I rolled them. When my guitar teacher helped me after a lesson and rolled the cable for me, it was always so neat and snug and I didn't even have a velcro strap. Dude just works as a sound technician as well and just... know how to. :|

i didn't know they sold those Velcro things i always lose mine!

It will be other way round in Australia

Hi - that's only half the truth ! Yeah, you get a nice bundle of cable when it's rolled up - but it will be twisted when you UN-roll it again ! In fact it should be rolled up shaped like the digit "8" (and THAT's what you see in big studios !) but it's not good for the jig-back. BUT your method is better then what you most often see - a messed up cable ;-))

Thanks fr

How do you get the kinks out of your cables when you live in, say, Iceland, and it's winter and there is no sun?

Just ran across this channel. Is that you Norm MacDonald?!

No don't twist like this. You should use the over under method. Twisting like this the wires I side the cable twist not good.

You definitely should. But if you do, please film it from at least two angles because it could get confusing otherwise. ;)

What's the guitar for?

I do that anyway. But awesome video nonetheless.

I hold my hand at a 90 degree angle (like you're flexing) and then you hold the cable in your hand and wrap it around your elbow

@thehandsomenipple3623

8 жыл бұрын

don't do that rolling it like that can break it

But if you say the "8" is the same thing as the "under and over" how come you even started this discussion?

Good video but never tie in a knot to secure the cable as in this video. The small "bend radius" will break the internal wire over time and ruin your cable. Use velcro wraps to hold the cable together once rolled up! Also, contrary to this video lesson, the best rolling method is the over and under wrap to organize and preserve your cables for longer life. Rock on!

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if you reverse your hand every other turn you dont have to twist the cable

how about a lesson on "guitar player's nails"?

my cable just doesn't do that, its like it cant do that

Personally, I much prefer the, springy, coiled cables.

cool : )

thx lol

my way doesnt give me knots, etc either.. this is just A way (:

It's a metre Jason....