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In the two sets of Sergebanana cables I’ve seen, gray is the shortest at 4 inches, green is next at8 inches and red is the longest for the “short” set, up to about 21inches. Then blue, purple and maybegreen again for the long set. Oneof these sets was from the late 1970s or early 1980s and one was from veryearly STS, 1994. So it appears thatSerge may have had different color schemes along the years according to youraccount.
IMHO patching by color is more useful thancolor by length. It doesn’tmatter what colors are used as long as you have some consistency. For instance, all pitch control voltagecables may be one color, gate voltages another color. Then I might color code everything in anaudio chain the same color, for instance, VCO1 to VCF1 to VCA1 is white, thenVCO2 to VCF2 to VCA2 is blue. Youdon’t have to follow this religiously, and you’ll always haveone-offs where the color doesn’t matter. It most definitely helps when you have apatch going with a 100 patch cords.
I have relegated nearly all of my blackcables to use on the back of my patchbay. Patching black cables on top of blackMOTM panels would be a challenge.
This, of course, is all a personaldecision to make.
John Loffink
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In all honesty (ah hemn)I have to admit that my cable color scheme is actually the opposite of what Iclaimed. I got the idea of (5) rainbow color cables with red being the shortestand blue being the longest directly from Serge T.. I have no idea why he chosethose colors/lengths (this might be the standard way banana cables come fromPomona) but many years later I was showing them to a friend (as well as the 75other cables I'd made) stating, "and I chose these colors because red isthe shortest wavelength and blue is the longest." To which he said,"No! It's the reverse."