My life has forever been changed by the roadie wrap.

The apple earpods were programmed to tie themselves in knots when you aren't looking. It's impressive how Apple did that.

When you unwound out it with zero kinks, I may have gasped like a kid at a magic show.

That's what I call the overhand/underhand method. This is what I do with my guitar cables. And since I'm a custodian for a living, I do this with the vacuum cables as well. Keeps 'em lasting a long time 👌🏼

This is how actual roadies and production assistants wrap cables. I was a communication major and this was literally the first lesson on the very first day of class. I just taught my kids how to do it!

(There’s another HUGE advantage you didn’t mention-) but YESSS I’ve been doing this since high school haha I learned it in tech theater class (a class about running live sound & light, building sets) we literally had to pass the test with a rope before we could touch their cables, they’d lay a cable out and show you how it looks bent and twisted, never goes flat. They called it the idiot kink. Wrap it this way, and you never have that problem. The big advantage you didn’t mention, is the fact that if you wrap your cords, this way, you could throw the coil across the stage, and it will perfectly unspool without a single tangle. That was most of the reason we learned it.

Dude, you have made my day. About to try this on EVERY cable in the house 😂

I missed this vid when it was uploaded, but youtube recommended this to me this morning. I can't believe I've never heard about this cable wrapping technique before. It always annoyed me a little bit when the cable unwraps itself no matter how meticulous I've wound it up around my fingers. This is game changer. I need to look out for more "gear care" tips from now on. Thanks for sharing!

The over-under roadie wrap is legit one of the best life hacks ever.

Was reading a comment somewhere where they suggested that if I try using IEMs that I should do a roadie wrap, and then I found this video, to realize that I already do the roadie wrap on many cables if needed, without even realizing that what I was doing had a name... I found out when watching a home building show once on tv, that anytime I wrap up extension cords I should add a quarter twist on every wrap I make while bundling the cord up, to prevent it from looking like a rats nest. I don't remember if they had a name for it, but I never knew or at the very least forgot if I did know, that it was referred to as a roadie wrap at least in the audio biz The things you learn without even realizing what it is... It never ceases to amaze me...

Wow, I sort of did the "let the cable wind itself up" trick by instinct, but the alternate wind part is new to me and I'll definitely try it. Thanks!

this is what i always do since almost 20 years ago for my guitar and mic cables in my studio. great tips

Also to note, cables have a natural coil to them that matches the spool they were wound onto when they were manufactured. It wants to coil itself into a roll with its own diameter, so let it take its natural shape. It's better for the cable and easier for you.

i just ordered my new iem today and this video somehow showed up in my homepage. i had to take out the cable from it's case and do it the way you showed it in the video and it's definitely more neat! thank you for making this video!

Just got the Dunu Titan S for Christmas after seeing your review of them. Found your channel again to learn how to wrap the cable, Thanks!!

I don't know why I never researched this technique before! Thanks for the tutorial it is a game changer.

Never thought one day i would watch a video on how to wind cables... lol 😅 but wow i learned new things. 👍👍 Thanks for the video!

Been a week since I've started using this... LIFE CHANGER THANK YOU!

Great technic! Found out that 3 fingers wrap works optimal for me with over/under

Whoa... did I hear you say "using a hair dryer" to shape the ear hooks on IEMs? Brilliant! My Ultimate Ear Pros need that... thank you!

It's so funny, I have wrapped ever cable I own this way (although I tend to do over/over) for about ten years. You mentioning extension cords is apt because I work in the film industry doing lighting and that is where I learned to wrap cables. Interestingly, I find most sound guys wrap over/over, but its the camera department that tends to wrap over/under.

never thought that I'll need this, my life has been changed forever 🤯

Great tip!!! Makes it a lot easier to put the IEM back in their case. Thanks!

Having tired of flaked-out device cables, I've picked up the technique-thanks-and will go with it. Here's to longer cable life!

classic over/under technique. been doing it with my instrument cables for over 20 years.

I've been meaning to ask you this for some time, thanks for the explanation!

Man, this helped me out so much! Just got my first IEM, which came with a storage pouch or however they're called. Couldn't figure out at all how on earth I'd get them in there with the cable included. Of course also how I could get it in while still being able to close the storage pouch.

Exactly how I thought it would be. I learned this technique during my SNES controller days as a kid from my electric guitar playing brother.

Holy frick, I always did it the "nnngnhh" way, and then found my IEM just tangled up, or in a totally different position that I was before, due to the spring thing, sometimes they fell, now they stay perfectly on the table, I love it!

Thank you for this guide! Useful stuff as always

I always did the figure 8 wrap to keep it from tangling, I like this way a lot better

Thank you for sharing! I'll practise this roadie wrap to learn the hang of it.

stumbled upon this on my feed, this should be a YT short, its great

Mind blown. Thank you!

Very smart stuff, worked like a charm.

Thanks brother. Lifesaver tip

The over under technique is great for mic cables and extension cords

I have been enlightened with this.

Thank you so very much for this video. I'm now going to do this forever with all cables

Nice tips. Thanks for sharing

You have changed my life 😂 THANKS

Life changing. I owe you a beer... THANK YOU

Genius level! Thanks

Have started doing my assignment! It's going to take a lot of getting used to. It's not going to be easy with the FH3 cable which I find too uncooperative to twist, neither with NiceHCK cables which I find too soft for me to twist. Practice makes perfect. (And practice I might with garden hose even!) Thanks!

Best tip I've seen.

This is gold, thanks a ton!

It's so simple and so smart.Respect

genius. did not expect this.

mvp thank you, I remember I saw a video like this a long time ago but I never understood it since it was going too fast

Ha I had to teach people how to that with water hoses when I ran a walmart deli. They have a hose on a rack on the wall for cleaning the floor at the end of the day, and if you hang it on the rack right it unwinds itself without twisting when you use it. Do it wrong and it takes 15 minutes longer to do the floors because you're fighting the hose.

This is as life changing as that time I learned to quick tie my shoe laces tbh

This is life changer

Thanks! Works very well

Very nice, very useful. Adopted !

I love that I got an earwax removal tool ad after this.

wow thanks my man !

Holy sh*t it's remarkable, thank you very much

That's smart. I'm trying this trick now.

Finally the secret of dealing with the tangly bastards. My life has meaning now..

Once upon a time I was the electrical safety petty officer on board a US Navy guided missile destroyer. My job for a little while was making sure all of the handheld electric tools were in good shape, and I learned a lot about cord management. The number one way to help electrical stuff last longer is just don't put stress on the power cord. I had to fight my wife for 20 years because leaving the cord on her vacuum loose and stress free irked her. For some reason a lot of people aren't happy unless power cords are wrapped so tight it breaks them.

Very helpful, thanks!

The object is to keep it from twisting while you wrap it - in your "bad way" example, you're rigidly holding the wire with your right hand; if you let the buds dangle, and counter any twisting naturally, you get the same result. Wrap my flat-wire cables this way daily.

impressive! so simple and useful!!! thnxs!!!

im here fighting with my fiio fh3's cable lmao, also would be awesome to see your IEM collection!

dis be so underrated ty

This is amazing.

Nobel Prize for the man

my old guitar teacher taught me this method many years ago. can confirm everything he said

Wow, master skill, haha. Hey, would have been great to have a small guide on shaping the earhooks via hairdryer, actually. I've wanted to try it out for a while, due to one of the earhooks on my only cable being bent horizontally and actually pushing the IEM out of the ear, but I'm afraid of damaging the cable somehow.

Tried this with my sony mdrs. I got it right the first time I tried it.

This is probably a good alternative as I have ruined a good pair of earphones with the "bad" way of looping

Ok! I think I got it! (nope :c, I stretched it and got tangled, I gotta try a few more times to get it right) Cool video!

For IEMs with a harder cables I just make a metal sign and make figure 8 shaped loops and I have a velcro near the jack to tie it. You can instantly unwrap them without a single tangle!

learned this technic when i was working as roadie lmao, all those microphones and speaker cables.... those were the times.

Positive comment for super posititive video!

Thank you so much for this im a newborn man now

When i saw this the 1st time on ur instagram or sumn, I never went back 😂

Holy shit, thanks for this video

Same way you'd wrap a hose, just let it follow it's own natural curve. I didn't know this was a secret lol. I've always coiled everything that can be coiled like this, I just thought that's how people did it.

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Thank you again!

🤯 thank you mate!

I use over and under to wrap all cables except for earphone cables, I hate how awkward it gets when you get to the split. Is there a different solution? I’ve been using the figure 8, but I’m pretty sure that kind of damages the cable as well.

I do that to all of my cables, learned that from a guitar equipment tips and tricks.

Thank you

Genius!

Thanks.

It took me a little while to comprehend what to actually do. The best way to explain it is alternate between the length of the wire going in front of itself and then alternate to behind itself the next pass.

What’ up with these Sony mh755..., detachable cable... it is beautiful I just got them I wonder what to do to them...😁❤️

I’m really interested on your thought on the Sony MH755. Is it worth the hype, and is the built quality that notorious?

BRB, winding up all my cables in this fashion now.

awesome blon shirt

Your blon shirt is beautiful.

Can you please make a video on Bending ear hooks of iem with hair dryer? It will be of great help. Thank you

this is also how cameraman rolls their cable, I'm a cameraman and only figure it out now 😅. been doing it the wrong way.. now I know how

damn never knew about this lifechanging

thank you so much

My life is complete.

LOL TLDW; DO IT LIKE AN EXTENSION CORD. This should have been a short but watched anyways. Ty sir🤙

Oh god I’ve been roadie wrapping wrong! I’ve been twist winding over over over lol.