Re: Recommendation for inventory labels?
Good idea but: I'm envision an eloquent way to kill two birds with one stone.
1) In the past (till now), the equipment list has been basically for tax purposes... date of purchase, item description, purchase price. It's a cumbersome list because of the ID methods: Make, model, and serial number... but the ID method breaks-down when there isn't a serial number available... or the serial number is buried. That's why I was thinking a simple unique inventory number assigned to each durable goods piece of equipment would simplify the record keeping.
2) A few weekends ago I was working a show co-op with another contractor. Came time for tear-down, we had 5 or 6 SM-57's to sort out which were his and which were mine... they all looked virtually the same in the light we had to work in (headlights from my truck)... and neither one of us could remember how many 57's either one of us had brought to the gig. This has happened quite a few times for me in the past. One or two of my mics had some tell-tale signs that I recalled... which helped facilitate the sorting... but it would have been so much better if I had some sort of good ID on my gear. Some kind of tasteful but durable ID label would be nice.
