[sdiy] faster/looser potis

[Derek Holzer]

Hey Tim,

Thanks for your suggestions. I'm sure I wanted to build an 8x8, cause 
it's already built!

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8000634&blogID=466284568

Let's just say I like to lose myself during my live sets... exterminate 
all rational thought! With cross-modulation, it's pretty hard to figure 
out what's going where anyways after a certain point, it all just adds 
(or subtracts) up in the long run.

And as you can see, bigger knobs aren't really the solution at this 
point, because it's pretty cramped for space. I have to use the smallest 
Davies knobs as it is. I guess if I could do it all over again, I might 
opt for a bigger surface area though. But I did want to fit it into a 4U 
panel frame. Maybe this one will go in the synth for studio stuff, and 
the NEXT ONE will be the live freakout one ;-)

best!
Derek

Tim Parkhurst wrote:

> Hey Derek,
>  
> You might actually want to try using a bigger control knob. Bigger knob 
> = easier to apply more torque (I'm sure the physics majors in the crowd 
> can chime in with something about being further away from the center 
> point giving you a higher polar moment of inertia - which always sounded 
> like an Eskimo's coffee break to me). The best would be some sort of 
> lever arrangement, but you'll likely run out of room. Are you sure you 
> want to be freaking with an 8x8 matrix of pots? That seems like an awful 
> lot of controls to keep track of during an improvisation. Maybe a 
> smaller matrix, or move the pots on the edges out and further away, and 
> make those your "most used" pots. More space around certain pots would 
> make them easier to visually identify, and you can use a bigger knob.
>  
> Either that, or you could shoot some contact cleaner or even WD-40 in 
> those pots. Note that this will make them much easier to turn for a 
> while, BUT WILL PROBABLY RUIN THEM in the long run, since this will 
> disolve the lubricating grease in the pots.
> 
> 
> Tim (there's a "big knob" joke in there somwhere) Servo

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