MOTM

I have noticed that sometimes in low light conditions, my eyes get fooled
when looking at MOTM panels. It becomes hard to visually group knobs
together into a module at a glance, especially if you have a big wide wooden
cabinet instead of rack mounts.

I wondered why Paul chose not to screen a border around each module, and if
anybody else has had this problem besides me. If so, does anyone have a
solution?

I was idly thinking about a vertical edge begween modules created by a thin
strip of metal with a 'T' cross section, that could be slipped between them.
It would give it sort of that classy Moog module "aluminum border" look. It
would have to be awful thin, or the module spacing would be thrown off.

Comments?

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

I like the idea of doing a rectangle around near the outside of the panel.
The line would be fairly thick and have rounded corners.
--Todd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
> I have noticed that sometimes in low light conditions, my eyes get fooled
> when looking at MOTM panels. It becomes hard to visually group knobs
> together into a module at a glance, especially if you have a big
> wide wooden
> cabinet instead of rack mounts.
>
> I wondered why Paul chose not to screen a border around each
> module, and if
> anybody else has had this problem besides me. If so, does anyone have a
> solution?

> I was idly thinking about a vertical edge begween modules created by a
thin
> strip of metal with a 'T' cross section, that could be slipped between
them.
> It would give it sort of that classy Moog module "aluminum border" look.
It
> would have to be awful thin, or the module spacing would be thrown off.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Dave Bradley

Dave,
	I have been thinking about this myself quite a bit.  More than any reason,
because I really like that look that you get with the old Moogs that have
the metal strip appearance.  So far, the only thing I have found that looks
nice are the inverted rails from HO gage train track.  They come in 9"
lengths which is just right for trimming.  Just strip the rails off the
plastic RR "ties."  I have been searching for something better. The problem
with the rails is that they get thicker near the top (or back in MOTM
terms).  This thickness can be cut off with a dremmel or similar, BUT,
that's too much work.  So. I too am still looking for something.

Let me know if you find anything to your liking.
Larry Hendry