Tips and Tricks of Gear Organization

[Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>]

Its been quite here for a bit so I thought I'd stir things up with a 
question.

Since most of us are probably guilty of complicating the process of
making music to an absurd degree (just another couple of pitch
shifters on send three and this should be perfect) I thought I'd ask
what kinds of tricks people have come up with to A) keep their studio
space as clutter free and productive as possible B) make set-up and
tear down of gear manageable and C) whatever else works for you and
makes your musical life better (materially speaking).

As for myself, I've been having a great time playing over at friends
and wanted to stream line things so it was as easy as possible to set
and and tear down so I had as few excuses for wanting to haul stuff
around.  To this end, the latest development was to plug everything in
and then, using electrical tape, bind all the chords that went to a
single box together on one end (ie my VG 8 has a guitar send and two
returns and two outs so these five got bundled as one so I can drop
that on the floor and plug everything into the box with little hassle
in sorting cables and the like).  Now my set up and tear down is about
5 minutes or less (with a VG, Wah, 2 Multi-FX units and five
expression pedals).

Also, those metal binder clips make good cable hangers in the studio.

Anyone else?

Kevin

-- 
Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.

- Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)