[sdiy] KNOB EMERGENCY....can anyone help?

[Paul Perry]

I don't suppose knob colour is much to do with SDIY - 
but as a manufacturer, I found that customers fall on a 
very wide distribution, at the one end people who are
totally sound obsessed and would be happy if  the unit was
built in a rusty biscuit tin (providing it was reliable) and at 
the other end a (removable) finger print smudge is 
considered a fatal flaw.

Unfortunately, the non-technical buyer (or reviewer!) tends 
to put too much emphasis on the external appearance, because 
they aren't equipped to go deeper.
When I was manufacturing, I tried to keep up a certain standard,
but because I never actively promoted the product, it was able to 
rise - or fall - on its intrinsic merits. 

Now I'm running a bookshop & I have the same kind of problem - 
I know that if I replaced the shelves with polished antique looking
ones, I could sell more books. But they would be the SAME books, 
and I don't believe that enough people would be impressed to make 
it worth doing economically.
In the present case, though, my advice is this: it's better to make 
those knobs a completely different colour, rather than to miss matching by 
a just noticeable amount.

And I certainly agree with Andre when he suggests that the analog synth 
field attracts obsessives. Sometimes this is a VERY GOOD thing, but
sometimes it slows down production...

paul perry Melbourne Australia