My old live echo loop act I did starting in had, at its peak, about 90 cables, including signal and power. Even leaving as much prepatched as possible in my rack boxes, setup was a long grind.
I did minimize my suffering by being very disciplined about cables, for the most part. Proper coiling, everything with its own cable tie of some kind. Basically you'd go into a variation of the Stockholm Syndrome someplace in the middle of breakdown when you really, really wanted to be safe at home with your gear put away and your feet up in front of the late, late, late show Explain to me how it's not helping I recently reviewed the American Stage cables from Planet Waves.
Reviewing a cable The company was like "you should really review these cables, they really are different, honest. They kind of act like al dente spaghetti. If they're mixed in with a bunch of cables all tangled on the floor, I just pull them out and they don't snag. I asked Planet Waves about this, and they mumbled something about the center conductor being 22 gauge wire and the insulating jacket.
Of course, nudity such as the above would have allowed for more scientific testing, but I did the best I could under the circumstances. Yeah - when you think about how exact a configuration an unknotted coil of tubular material has to be in order to qualify as un-knotted Maybe if someone made a cable with a Teflon outer coating, all these tangles would cease to exist?
Many years ago I got so frustrated with my cables tangling themselves up while I slept that I tossed a guitar through the air into the wall, slammed my studio door and didn. When I take my PA out, I put my cables are in ziplock freezer bags then into a large plastic tote. The bag holds the coiled cable together and eliminates the need for knots or ties.
It is easy to search through to tote without getting any tangles and I can see the connectors through the bag. Just take the time to wrap your cables.
I learned this at the IT Department I work for. We use inexpensive wire or velcro wraps to do this to ever cable that goes into a bin. Its worth the time to wrap the cable with a piece of wire than to set there and curse while you detangle everything.
I used to get so mad at home boxes of cable. I would violently take one end of a cable and start yanking the whole mess up and down which probably led to damaged cables. We performed experiments in which a string was tumbled inside a box and found that complex knots often form within seconds.
This was repeated over and over with each length of string to collect statistical data. Knot theory is an area of mathematics that studies knots, as the name suggests, but not just the types of knots we are accustomed to — it has applications in biology , quantum computing , chemistry , and many other fields.
In math, knots are always studied in closed loops and a knot is defined as a configuration that cannot be untangled into a simple loop. They are classified based on their number of crossings. The Sciences. Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news.
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