Re: Knob Direction

[Lindsey Walker <lindsey.walker@gmail.com>]

It never occured to me that this could be due to cost or poorly-read design instructions!  That's neat to think about.

The knob direction seems to be the same on both of my two pedal devices: the Boss LoopStation and the Digitech Jamman.

What I really want is to permanently disable any metronomics in the device. 

Thanks,
Lindsey

On Nov 15, 2013 2:58 AM, "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

Maybe some designer thought that "one button mirroring the other
button makes it easier to tweak them simultaneously with both hands"?
A wild guess on a stupid cause.

Lindsey, are you sure it is not just YOUR RC-20XL? Could it be a
random manufacturing mistake? I remember when touring in Taiwan some
music electronics people I met there complained about leasing out
assembling work to mainland China because "they sometimes make stupid
mistakes like mounting a switch upside down."

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:19 AM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Lindsey Walker wrote:
>>
>> Something I just noticed about my Boss LoopStation RC-20XL is if I want to
>> turn every knob setting to, "low," or, "off,"    What I mean is one knob may
>> be at 0 by turning it left and another at 0 by turning it right.
>
>
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Lindsey
>
>
> Can't imagine any designer who'd be reading this list would make such
> a basic design mistake ;-)
>
> Sometime such reverses are needed for analog circuits where
> custom potentiometers are not available easy/cheap enough.
>
> Maybe there's some design justification in the RC-20XL,
> can't even see that it helps them to save on costs.
>
> baffled
>
> andy
>