MOTM

> Each to his own... code by length, by processing, by flavor, by
> corresponding lumen value in the light spectrum... LOL, whatever YOU
> want... there is NO right or wrong, just personal taste.

Well put. Personally I can't see any point in trying to color cables
according to function, but if that makes sense to someone, great, go for it.

My $0.02 worth: coloring according to length makes sense to me because of
the pile-on-the-floor situation. I happen to sit on the floor when I use my
MOTM, and I start by taking all of my patch cords off a wall rack and
throwing them into a pile. Actually it's two piles in the beginning, because
currently I have only two lengths of cables. But after a little bit of
patching and repatching, it devolves into one tangled pile. Color-coding by
length will help me pull out the cable I need--not because I want to have to
think "I'm going to modulate an oscillator frequency with a control voltage,
which means I need a chartreuse cable" but because it would be helpful to be
able to think "I need a cable that runs from one corner of the cabinet to
the middle, which means a mauve one will work."

However, I also understand the usefulness of color to differentiate cables
in a patch for the sake of remembering what goes where--not at the time that
the connection is made, necessarily, but later (like, say, a week later when
I have time to use my MOTM again). If there are a bunch of cables running
all over the place, it's easier to figure what's patched to what if the
cables are different colors. Sadly, most of my cables are black, so I'm
looking forward to having a wider assortment of colors.

So, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to take advantage of this
wondrous opportunity to choose both cable color and shrink-wrap color. I
will use cable color to indicate length, and heat-shrink color to
differentiate cables of the same length.

Now, will I use the color spectrum, or the resistor color code, or some
other convention? Gad, I don't know. I'm not that fastidious. I'll probably
just choose combinations that sound like they'd look nice.

--Adam

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Adam Schabtach
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