Yellow console tape brings the caution color to the low-tack paper family. This half-inch roll gives sound mixers, camera assistants, and playback techs a bright, gentle labeling tape for the middle tier of their color code, the channels and controls that are not quite red-flag critical but still deserve a second look before anyone touches them.
On a mixing board, yellow is the natural strip color for conditional channels: the plant mic that is only live in one setup, the spare wireless that swaps between day players, the aux send feeding a director's earwig that matters enormously but only sometimes. Laying yellow under those faders, with white for routine channels and red for the untouchables, turns the whole console into a traffic-light system a swing mixer can read cold. The same tiering works across a video village or DIT cart, where a yellow tab can mean verify before use on a card, a drive, or a cable of uncertain provenance. Camera teams also like yellow for temporary attention labels, such as a filter note on a matte box or a reminder flag on a battery that is aging out.
Like all proper console tape, the adhesive is low-tack and kind to expensive surfaces, peeling off consoles, camera bodies, and touchscreens without residue. The matte yellow paper takes black Sharpie with strong contrast and tears by hand into tidy tabs.
• Half-inch width for channel strips, tabs, and flags
• Caution yellow completes a traffic-light labeling system
• Low-tack adhesive safe for consoles and camera gear
• Matte writable face with strong black-ink contrast
• Tears by hand for fast relabeling between setups
• Typical roll length of 60 yards
Yellow half-inch console tape is in stock for purchase at Lightbulb Rentals' NYC, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh locations, and it can be added to any audio or camera rental order.
