MOTM

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