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We have been promoting our upcoming Church Sound Boot Camp classes via ads here on Facebook, and yesterday someone wrote a response that I found interesting. He asked rather bluntly: "What are your qualifications and professional experience to teach this class?"
My very first response was "Fair question". It would seem that most of my friends on FB already know my background in the industry, but
Nothing to see here.
The Secret Figure-8 Cable Trick
I learned that Over-Under cable wrapping technique from my mentor in school. Bill Porter, Elvis Presley's engineer. Another technique that he taught us was to coil the cable in a Figure-8.
Thinking back in the days before wireless microphones, when an entertainer in Las Vegas would run out on the stage with their microphone, they couldn't let that cable knot up in any way. So there had to be some way to deal with that. Well, the Figure-8 thing actually does that.
Watch this short demo and think about when and where this Figure-8 cable trick might be valuable during a service, concert or other event.
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The Secret Figure-8 Cable Trick
I learned that Over-Under cable wrapping technique from my mentor in school. Bill Porter, Elvis Presley's engineer. Another technique that he taught us was to coil the cable in a Figure-8.
Thinking back in the days before wireless microphones, when an entertainer in Las Vegas would run out on the stage with their microphone, they couldn't let that cable knot up in any way. So there had to be some way to deal with that. Well, the Figure-8 thing actually does that.
So the idea is to lay it out in a Figure-8, in big loops. So I've got this long 80 foot cable like this, and I'm just going to coil it up like this. You’d think I'd use a shorter cable for this demo, but think about it, a cable that you might give an entertainer on a stage, and they're going to run out onto a big stage with the audience. It could be a 100 foot cable.
Alright, so here we go. So imagine I have a microphone on here, and I'm going to walk out here. I'm not going to run.😎 I'll walk swiftly and we'll see how this works. Here we go!
So how did that work? Cable came undone. No tangles. No knots. No nothing. Nothing to hang up the artist as they run out on the stage. Even if you're using wireless mics all the time, you might find a good application for this Figure-8 kind of pattern. So now it's in your wheelhouse. You can use it wherever it applies. Hope that helps.
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