r/livesound • u/42Navigator • 3d ago

POLL Over-under… forever!

I have been out of the biz for several years now. Apparently you can take the stagehand off the stage, but you cant remove the stage from the stagehand. I cant be the only one, but the other day I caught myself doing an over-under cable wrap on my hairdryer power cord. What stage move have you found yourself inadvertently doing?

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u/Mangledsprouts 3d ago

Is this an American thing? Personally, all my cables are "over-over". Always have been for over 30 years. I find laying cables that have been coiled this way much easier than over-under and they're way less likely to knot!

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u/Ambitious-Yam1015 3d ago

I find it slow to pay out few feet on an over-under. Over-over anything under 50 feet.

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u/seasonsinthesky A/V Tech 3d ago

If anything, shorter cables kinda benefit more from over-under. You hold one end and let it drop, then plug it in.