[sdiy] using off the shelf pcbs in a commercial project

[Tom Wiltshire]

Dan,

> tons of routing (i think) for  basically a super super powerful  
> guitar effect (no pcb for my routing. thats just going to be a ton  
> of wires isnt it? with tons of buffers-that sounds like a nightmare  
> to figure out. but i will figure it out. it will be easier once the  
> panel is done and in front of me to put the pots on.

The routing is one place that would really benefit from a PCB, IMHO.  
Wiring up dozens of pots to dozens of boards on the back of a panel  
is a nightmare to do and to debug or fix if anything is wrong. If you  
worked out a PCB layout for this part and put PCB mounting pots and  
CV mixers on the same board, you'd only have outputs from your  
modules on one side, and modulation inputs on the other, with all the  
spaghetti replaced by a board in the middle.

That said, I've bottled out of even this, and am now working on  
modulation routing in software! ;)

Regards,
Tom