10. Re: What is the best mic cable for nature recordings

["John Lundsten" lundsten_john]

I've not come across any AES or other official standard but I recall in the=

mid 1960's using a made up word to remember this stuff.
RULY
Red, Upper, Left, Yellow
the upper was vis a vis stereo on a 2 chan, 2 track 1/4" recorder BTW
Yellow was at that time the most common colour for Left (or a single mono
i/o) on Equipment of Japanese origin. Of course this changed a few years
later and now (but not 100% consistently) seems to be Yellow for composite=

Video, Red for right & white for left. This is as viewed from the UK BTW
when it had significant consumer & pro electronics industries. It didn't
seem surprising a few  years later to see the Swiss made Stereo Nagra use
the port/starboard codes too.
John Lundsten