[sdiy] Schaeffer panels & colours

[jhaible]

> Has anyone here ordered panels from Schaeffer using a material colour
other
> than silver (natural) or black? I'm tempted to order a panel based upon a
> material colour of blue, yellow or maybe red, but I'm worried about how it
> might turn out. If the panel still has that nice aluminium finish to it
and
> it looks nice then I'll go for it - but I'd rather stick to natural if the
> paint finish looks kind of garish. Any opinions, or even panel photographs
> maybe?

I have tried

silver
black
"dunkelbronze" (whatever this is in English)
blue
red

Here's an example for blue:
http://home.debitel.net/user/jhaible/jh_storm_tide_flanger.html
and another one in blue:
http://home.debitel.net/user/jhaible/jh_720.html

I have built two devices in red (sorry, no pictures).
One is a slim 19" 1U panel (nice in red) and the other one is
a tabletop box (not so nice in red)

Dunkelbronze is *almost* black, but not quite. I like that a lot.
Makes clones of vintage synths look "more vintage". (;->)
I think I will use this for the PS-3200 clone as well.

JH.