I love making music. Not a big fan of connecting cables, MIDI setups, etc. It just kills my vibe. I’m still hopeful that in the near future wireless electricity will charge more than just iPhones…
Over the past couple of years, my setup has grown, and I needed a diagram to remind me how things are connected. I tend to switch things around, so I needed a quick way to troubleshoot whenever necessary instead of relying on my poor memory.
It also helps when I step away from the studio and come back a week or two later. I don’t lose time trying to rebuild the logic of the setup.
I started creating the diagram after recently adding a patchbay because I wanted the flexibility to connect my pedals to different instruments quickly. It was quite confusing to work with the patchbay at the beginning with waaaaaaay too many cables to my taste. The diagram helped me a lot to understand and visualize everything.
It simply shows how everything is routed, along with other bits of information I knew I’d need from time to time. It was fun creating it, and I learned a lot during the process.
I made it with https://excalidraw.com/ — it’s a free tool. I’ve also attached the file in case someone wants a starting point.
Im writing a song about cables at the moment.
I fucking love love cables. I’ve got loads of them. And I need more.
I dont know what some are are for, but I need more. They’re everywhere, right fucking mess. You lot would have kittens, or paroxysms.
Used to think I was a musician. Then I leveled up to gear enthusiast. Eventually achieved enlightenment when I realized it had been about the cables all along.
“I’ve two bags of cable adapters, seventy-five cable ties, five drawers full of patch cables, a big box with dozens of solder on connectors, and roughly twenty multi-colored bins with all the male-female variates of jack, XLR, USB, power, MIDI, network… and also a several cable extension, at least a dozen power sockets, cable tester, soldering iron. . . Not that I need all that for listening to music, but once you get locked into a serious cable collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”…
