Cable Management
by Phil on Feb.13, 2010, under Blog
You might think this post is secretly sponsored by some pharmaceutical company. It’s not. Keeping the stage clean looking and the cables organized has much less to do with obsessive compulsive disorder, and much more to do with professionalism.
Does you stage stay set up week to week? Is it a pain if your church has a wedding and you need to strike the stage and set it back up before Sunday? Perhaps you meet in a gym or another site that requires you bring in and set up your entire system each week.
Your stage set up should have some logic to it, as should your inputs patched into the console. Drums in the middle and instruments on the backline with singers up front is the traditional way to set up your contemporary service. Perhaps you have a more progressive contemporary set up… uh, nevermind.
Here are a few guidelines I’d like to see every church follow:
- Cables should be run in straight lines and only bend in right angles.
- Cables should be hidden as much as possible and be run together as much as possible.
- No cables should be run right across the stage where someone could step on it, it roll, and someone could twist an ankle.
- Excess cable should be coiled at the mic stand base, NOT at the snake box with all of the other cables.
- Mic cables should follow straight up the mic stand, and wrap once or twice at most around the boom arm.
- AT NO TIME should a mic cable drape from a mic on a boom arm straight to the floor.
This is a big no no! Nothing drives me more crazy than seeing a mic cable hang there while the singer ignores it. OK. I’m done venting… No, I’m not. Windscreens should only be used outdoors, or in Southern-Gospel groups!
Wrapping it up, keeping a tidy stage will make like easier, safer, and produce much more professional atmosphere for the people on stage and those staring at it.
Gaffer’s tape is your friend! Tape down cables that are in walkways.
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