Rode COLORS 1 Color-Coded Cap & Cable Clip ID Set for NT-USB Mini, Set of 4

Rode COLORS 1: Know Who's Talking on Every NT-USB Mini

The Rode COLORS 1 is a color-coded identification set for the NT-USB Mini, built from four snap-on microphone caps and a full complement of matching cable clips in pink, green, blue, and orange. When two, three, or four NT-USB Minis share a single computer, the cables and the microphones start to look identical, and a fast-moving session turns into a guessing game about which mic belongs to which person. COLORS 1 ends that guesswork by giving every seat its own color, from the top of the microphone all the way down the cable to the port. It is a small box of parts that makes a multi-person setup feel calm and organized instead of chaotic.

Everything in the Set, and What Each Piece Does

COLORS 1 includes four colored caps that press onto the top of each NT-USB Mini, four clips sized for USB-A cables, and eight clips sized for USB-C cables — enough hardware to color-code up to four microphones at once, whichever cable type each one uses. The cap marks the microphone itself so a host or camera can identify a seat instantly, while the clips snap onto the cable runs so you can follow any lead from the desk to the computer without tracing it by hand. Because there are twice as many USB-C clips as USB-A clips, the set covers the most common modern connection and still supports older Type-A runs, letting you tag both ends of a cable if you want an unbroken color path across the whole rig.

Colors That Match Your Channels in Rode Connect

The real power of the set is that its four colors are matched to the channel colors used in Rode Connect, the free software that mixes multiple NT-USB Mini microphones on one computer. In Rode Connect each connected microphone appears as its own fader with an assigned color; by capping the physical mic and clipping its cable in that same color, you tie the on-screen channel directly to the person sitting behind it. When someone's level needs riding or a channel needs muting mid-show, you already know which fader is theirs at a glance — no leaning over to read labels, no muting the wrong guest. It turns an abstract on-screen mixer into a physical, color-coded map of the room.

Made for Multi-Mic Podcasts, Panels, and Streams

Any time more than one NT-USB Mini is plugged into a single computer, COLORS 1 earns its place. A round-table podcast with three or four hosts becomes easy to run when each chair, mic, and cable carries a matching color. Live streamers bringing on in-studio guests can hand someone a mic and know exactly which channel to watch. Classroom, boardroom, and interview setups that share a machine get the same clarity, and teardown at the end of the night is faster because every cable announces where it belongs. For anyone recording or broadcasting with the Rode Connect ecosystem, it removes the single most common source of mid-session confusion.

Who the Rode COLORS 1 Is For

This set is for the podcaster, streamer, or content team that has grown beyond a single microphone and now runs a small array of NT-USB Minis on one computer. If you have ever muted the wrong channel, handed a guest the wrong mic, or spent the first five minutes of a session working out whose cable is whose, COLORS 1 is the simple fix. It asks nothing of your workflow beyond a few seconds of setup, and in return it makes every multi-mic session it touches faster, cleaner, and easier to run.