I thought a lot about the tick marks before I did my first Schaeffer panel.
Ultimately I realized that I don't really pay much attention to the tick
marks on my modules anyway, since I tune things by ear rather than by eye.
It would be a bigger issue if I wrote down my patches on paper so that I
could attempt to recreate them later, but I don't do this. So I settled for
putting marks at both extremes of travel, and one at the middle point.
I cheerfully buy Stooge panels when I can use them, but I've recently done
two MOTM conversions for which there are no Stooge panels, and my next
project will probably be an Expressionist breakout panel that doesn't fit
the MOTM standard. Beyond that I'm not sure what comes next. I have only 11U
of space left in my cabinet...
--Adam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Larry Hendry [mailto:jlarryh@...]
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 11:12 AM
> To: adam@...; motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Time for an HPF!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Schabtach <adam@...>
> I've become quite enamored with Schaeffer after having used their panels
> for
> for a couple of things that are outside of the Stooge Panel purview. If
> you
> don't require that all of your panels look exactly like MOTM panels, it's
> a
> wonderful service.
>
> I too like the Schaeffer look of anodized and engraved. I don't care for
> the Schaeffer panels that don't have pot tick marks though. I know they
> add
> a lot of expense to the Schaeffer panel. If it were not for the matching
> of
> Pauls finish (our # 1 goal) in panel appearance, Stooge panels would
> probably have been anodized and engraved. Prodicuing the popular ones 20
> and 30 at a time woudl bring the price well down below a Schaeffer price.
> But, it was not to be.
>
> I'm glad that we have Schaeffer option. Having a general idea of how many
> are probably made that way, I know we coudl certainly not keep up with the
> demand of that AND what we are already doing. On bog advantage is that
> one
> shop does eveything. So, the delivery time is so much better tyhan what
> us
> poor Stooges can eek out.
>
> Larry
>
>