My scheme was real complicated: I picked a color for the cable that
I liked and then picked a heat shrink color to compliment. The
result? I ordered ten 4' purple cables with green heat shrink.
Mike
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "echophazer" <echophazer@a...> wrote:
> Hello all,
> There was a little talk about the reasons why certain cable color
> combinations were picked. I'm wondering what kind of systems other
> people came up with in the group.
>
> I picked one of each cable color in each length. For each set of
> similar length cables I used the same color heatshrink. The 2'
cable
> set has one color heatshrink, 3' another color, and so on... I can
> pick out the right cable length from a rat's nest of cables by the
> color of the heatshrink. The different cable colors help me trace
> them
> quickly in a patch. The heatshrink helps me verify that I really
did
> follow the right cable in a patch.
>
>
> Unfortunately I had to give up a lot of combinations that I wanted
> with this system.
>
> Recently I had a bad experience where I was in a performance
> situation and relied on using cables with 1/4 inch jack on one end
> and
> 1/8" on the other. I was hampered all night because I'd go to pick
up
> a 1/4" to 1/4" or an 1/8" to 1/8" cable and grab a 1/4" to 1/8."
By
> the end of the night I decided that I would go back to using only
> 1/4"
> to 1/4" and 1/8" to 1/8" with 1/4" adapters where needed. This
> inspired me to adopt a standardized cabling system to avoid
> confusion.
> Hopefully soon the weather will change so I'll be able to convert
all
> my 1/8" modules to 1/4".
>
> Ok... enough talk from me...
>
> So why did you do the things