How To Organize a Home Recording Studio

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Shana Bethune on behalf of Expert Village and I am going to talk to you about keeping your cable sorted and organized. You are going to end up using lots of different cables and as you build your studio, you are going to have even more cables. power adapters, fire wire and USB, instrument cables, speaker cables and so on. Untangling cables or trying to find out what goes where can take up a lot of your time. When you are doing a recording time is very precious. So you don't want to waste your time untangling cables. Also you want to know what cables are going where at all times especially when you are troubleshooting. If there is a bad connection and you don't want to have to unplug everything or do trial and error to figure out what is going on, the best solution is to label each cable. Get yourself a cheap label maker and put a label on each end of the cable and when you are working with the adapters, put the labels on the box itself and make sure to keep each cable rolled up while you are not using it. Having rubber bands handy is a great way to make sure the cable doesn't unroll. The most important thing is to find what you are looking for and quickly. Sometimes it is tempting to not keep things rolled up and organized but in the end you waste a lot more time trying to find stuff at the last minute. "