The Leader of the band inists that all power cables connected to the amplifires be placed away from the performance area.
To prevent injury to performers and to protect equipment from potential shorts and for fire safety.
1. People come to see the performers not cables. Keeping them out of sight makes a better presentation and is safer for the performers. 2. Keeping the power cables away from the audio cables is just good practice. Low level (mic and line level) signals from mics and instruments are no match for high current power cables. The high current power cables produce magnetic fields that can induce hum into low level audio cables. Balanced cables, ones that use 3 pin XLR connectors are better than unbalanced RCA or phono plug audio cables. In the real world audio cables do have to cross power cables. When this happens try to cross them at 90 degree angles. Try to keep power and audio about a foot apart if possible. You may not be able to do this 100% of the time, but the better you run your cables the better the sound will be as far as hum is concerned. Hope this helps. D.bumstead
a) He(she) is smarter and more experienced than you? b) He(she) wants some action on the stage and you might just kick (scuff) the cords in the process (either of which is undesirable since sudden silence in the middle of a number does not get repeat performances and sudden shorts doesn't impress too many people, either).
