Here's a tip that made my life easier in the srudio and would work even better for gigs.

I used to have a big tub with a mess of cables in it that resembled a big wad of tangled twine or spahgetti, that was a major ordeal to get a cable I needed.

So one day I decided to organize them, being a neat freak and here's what I came up with:

First wrap them more in a figure 8 than a 0
and put a heavy rubber band around them or velcro tie.

Next, I took like cables (1/4", Rca etc) and put them together in a Zipllock bag, the larger freezer kind.

It's not a nightmare anymore when I need to hunt for a cable.
jam on,
Terry