One of the most overlooked parts of recording is treating your equipment properly and it all starts with your cables. Here’s a great video on one of the most basic operations in the studio – how to properly wrap a mic cable.

This used to be the very first thing that you were taught when you started at a studio, but with fewer commercial studios around, there are fewer places to learn the proper technique. Here are two techniques that will keep those cables from getting kinked and extend their life.[Bobby Owsinski]