mike_mccue

dwardzala

sharke
Just pick them purely at random. It really won't matter once you're waist deep in the project. I'm working on 2 songs at the minute - in one, the synths are red. In another, the synths are green. I can quite happily switch between the two color schemes. 

That's what I have been doing, but my mild obsessive/compulsiveness is struggling with not having a standard.  I guess I will just make up my own and save it as part of my template.  At least the main instruments will be consistent.

I have been doing this consistently for 15+ years:
 
Blue = Drums, Percussion
Brown = Bass
Yellow = Vocals
Orange = Guitars, Manodo, Banjo etc.
Red = Horns and Winds
Purple = Piano, Keys, Synth
Green = Scratch tracks and experimental stuff.
 
If you do the exact same thing we may be able to get bapu to start calling it the Q system.
 
:-)

Laughed happily. Bravo Mike.

I actually just kind of randomly picked some colors on my project template to set a standard.  I don't recall exactly what went where, but now I will be consistent with myself, if not with anyone else.

The industry standard, as defined by...uhhhmm...this guy I know, way back in the mid  20th century, orders the tracks Drums, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Orchestral, Vocals...
 
The track color schema just follows the color wheel, or, more scientifically, the Electromagnetic Spectrum by Wavelength, Red to Indigo, with a side benefit that if the drummer or singer hacks The Engineer off, their colors can be..adjusted...to Infrared and Ultraviolet, respectively, rendering them invisible to the naked eye, without disrupting the overall master plan.
 
Of course you are free to choose any system you want, if you don't mind  possible rejection due to non conformity by those who choose to Groove In Tune with The Universe Which Allowed Us to Evolve and Celebrate the Very Fact of Our Existence via The Music of Life.
 
Its a personal choice.