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Identifying Patch cables

Identifying Patch cables

2011-03-14 by Alan

Hi folks, I wonder if anyone out there has any bright suggestions for helping me wade through this spaghetti.

Just about all my patch leads seem to be black and, without buying a load more multi-coloured ones, I'm trying to think of the best way to mark the plug of each cable with a different colour (well the same colour on each end of an individual cable if you see what I mean) so that I can quickly identify what is going where.

I thought of coloured electrical insulating tape, but I think that will just make the ends really sticky in time. At the moment I'm winding coloured sewing thread repeatedly around the ends of each cable. However, this is a bit time consuming and I don't think it's going to be a very permanent solution.

Any advice will be warmly received...

Cheers,
Alan

Re: Identifying Patch cables

2011-03-14 by cliffmaniam

I've used colored heat-shrink tubing on leads, but
that was when i built my own..

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Alan" <alan@...> wrote:
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> Hi folks, I wonder if anyone out there has any bright suggestions for helping me wade through this spaghetti.
> 
> Just about all my patch leads seem to be black and, without buying a load more multi-coloured ones, I'm trying to think of the best way to mark the plug of each cable with a different colour (well the same colour on each end of an individual cable if you see what I mean) so that I can quickly identify what is going where.
> 
> I thought of coloured electrical insulating tape, but I think that will just make the ends really sticky in time. At the moment I'm winding coloured sewing thread repeatedly around the ends of each cable. However, this is a bit time consuming and I don't think it's going to be a very permanent solution.
> 
> Any advice will be warmly received...
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan
>

Re: [Doepfer_a100] Identifying Patch cables

2011-03-14 by Paul J. White

I like to use colored heat-shrink tubing to mark my cables.  You can 
decorate them with a Sharpie permanent pen before shrinking to give 
them extra character, too.


At 02:01 PM 3/14/2011, you wrote:
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>Hi folks, I wonder if anyone out there has any bright suggestions 
>for helping me wade through this spaghetti.
>
>Just about all my patch leads seem to be black and, without buying a 
>load more multi-coloured ones, I'm trying to think of the best way 
>to mark the plug of each cable with a different colour (well the 
>same colour on each end of an individual cable if you see what I 
>mean) so that I can quickly identify what is going where.
>
>I thought of coloured electrical insulating tape, but I think that 
>will just make the ends really sticky in time. At the moment I'm 
>winding coloured sewing thread repeatedly around the ends of each 
>cable. However, this is a bit time consuming and I don't think it's 
>going to be a very permanent solution.
>
>Any advice will be warmly received...
>
>Cheers,
>Alan
>
>
>
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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Identifying Patch cables

2011-03-15 by James Husted

I use the colored O-rings sold by Adinfinitum with their black cables. They work much better than you would think by just looking at them.
http://www.adinfinitummusic.com/PC35mm.html 
Look at the bottom of that page.
-James
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On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Alan wrote:

> Hi folks, I wonder if anyone out there has any bright suggestions for helping me wade through this spaghetti.
> 
> Just about all my patch leads seem to be black and, without buying a load more multi-coloured ones, I'm trying to think of the best way to mark the plug of each cable with a different colour (well the same colour on each end of an individual cable if you see what I mean) so that I can quickly identify what is going where.
> 
> I thought of coloured electrical insulating tape, but I think that will just make the ends really sticky in time. At the moment I'm winding coloured sewing thread repeatedly around the ends of each cable. However, this is a bit time consuming and I don't think it's going to be a very permanent solution.
> 
> Any advice will be warmly received...
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Doepfer_a100] Identifying Patch cables

2011-03-15 by blacet@blacet.com

We stock cables that use bands of colored heatshrink on black cables and
also have cables that are solid colors. I imagine you could also mix up
the two methods.

http://www.blacet.com
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> I use the colored O-rings sold by Adinfinitum with their black cables.
> They work much better than you would think by just looking at them.
> http://www.adinfinitummusic.com/PC35mm.html
> Look at the bottom of that page.
> -James
>
> On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Alan wrote:
>
>> Hi folks, I wonder if anyone out there has any bright suggestions for
>> helping me wade through this spaghetti.
>>
>> Just about all my patch leads seem to be black and, without buying a
>> load more multi-coloured ones, I'm trying to think of the best way to
>> mark the plug of each cable with a different colour (well the same
>> colour on each end of an individual cable if you see what I mean) so
>> that I can quickly identify what is going where.
>>
>> I thought of coloured electrical insulating tape, but I think that will
>> just make the ends really sticky in time. At the moment I'm winding
>> coloured sewing thread repeatedly around the ends of each cable.
>> However, this is a bit time consuming and I don't think it's going to be
>> a very permanent solution.
>>
>> Any advice will be warmly received...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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>>
>>
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