MOTM

Hi all--

Let me say about the same as others have said:

> a) change color
please don't.  While I've home-brewed a few panels which depart in other
ways from the layout, I've kept the color black.

> b) add graphics
I'm not opposed to graphics if they're truly helpful (Tony's 'representative
envelope' on the UEG is a helpful graphic to me), if they're not helpful or
needed, then, again, please don't!  I'd also root for maintaining the same
font and the same tick mark scheme (er, ah, the most recent tick mark
scheme, I guess)

> c) change knobs/add colored knobs
Knobs of the same design currently in use, but in differing sizes would be
very welcome to me. I would not be happy to see different styles of knobs,
or different colors of knobs, except possibly for some extraordinarily
different function.  :-)

> d) not be "on grid"
Dpeartures from the grid are just fine with me, provided that the
color/fonts/knob style isn't also changed radically.

> e) place jacks somewhere except across the bottom
Much like Jeff P. wrote, placing some jacks nearer their specific controls
wouldn't bother me at all. A wacky arrangement for the sake of wackiness
*would* bother me!

I made an attenuator very early on in a 2U panel. It has 8 jacks in the
standard location at the bottom, forming 2 four-way multiples. On one side
of the panel, there are 4 attenuator pots arranged 'on-grid', on the other
side there are two jacks for each pot, side by side, which could be most
easily imagined by looking at Keith W's 292 clone
http://home.freeuk.net/bandpass/292front2.jpg
and imagining a jack where each of the holes for the filter/VCA switches are
located. I find it a sensible solution, and prefer that to having a group of
ins and outs along the bottom.

Er, so there, that's what I think.

Frank