Hosa snake cables, for example, use the rainbow spectrum: red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, gray, black, white. So I make them one through
eight in that order - at both ends of course!
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Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio =95 415-883-2689
On Sep 29, 2007, at 12:25 AM, frankmhinrichs wrote:
> But since using up to 8 mics at times, I too have come naturally to
> the nautical use of
> colours for the first 2 channels green for right and red for left ,
> then brown, yellow, blue,
> orange, purple, black (that is my personal choise of colours).
> That also allows me to group mics (group red, group green....).
> But I've seen many different combinations as in a digisnake, other
> AES connectors or even
> telephone connectors. So I guess there is no international standard
> for cable coding. I'd
> love one for my part. Electrical, audio, digital, nautical, for the
> moment I guess it all comes
> down to a practical and personal preference.
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