I used to make them with a bit of bent aluminium. One end bent flat against the panel with a slot that fits under any suitable potentiometer shaft.
If there wasn't a handy pot for the top end I used araldite. Glue's ok for one end as the heavy work is done by the piece under the pot.

Thanks NB. I guess that's the trick - walking the line between structure and disorder, while skirting SIDS of course

A Shiva Feshareki piece is featured in the second show, I've checked out a few more. Turntablism meets loop destruction.
She has a Soundcloud page - recommended.
https://soundcloud.com/shivafeshareki

Great show, thanks for the heads up Tubgoat (we need an avatar showing the Tubgoat now).
Did you spot the show is presented by Gabriel Prokofiev? Only his grandson!

That's precisely what I thought too. It was an interesting listen NB - I let Soundcloud play several of your pieces and then listened to your other recent link. I then watched a French police drama (gritty - set in Paris) and for a few minutes found myself concentrating on the sound effects - your p...

Awesome! -Definitely needs to be on your gigging truck - you've got a truck and road crew for all your gear, right?

Another who's not heard Broadcast - maybe once or twice on late night radio. Listening now. I used to play Stereolab's Mars Audiac Quintet a lot but never really liked others of theirs. As a genuine old fart™ and German music fan I should have been familiar with Neu! so was quite surprised how much ...

Great stuff!
Put a smile on my face. Is that a real dulcimer or a sample? Reminds me a bit of Dead Can Dance

Not sure if it's bad - guerilla collage music - you'll need to listen to at least 20 minutes to get an idea of the territory it covers - and it's coming up to 50 years old.

Lead spacing shouldn't be a problem - you can always have things connected with an extra tiny bit of wire or stand that component off the board. Yep, it's ugly. It's also easier on old style "plenty of space" boards - Euro format panel mount is so much less forgiving.

I know what you mean. You could create the mechanism with a three-d printer and fix it between a pot and the panel. It's a cogwheel with fine indents - that's held within an outer ring and at a point in the ring there's a small spring pushing a tiny ball bearing into the cog edge. Bingo: clickety cl...

Pedantic note: current is amps, volts are volts - what you're asking about is the max voltage.
A current max value isn't directly relevant to small/medium caps though it's related to the capacitance value in a roundabout way.

Another of your pieces I like a lot.
Could be the theme for a TV or film drama - doomed love, French auteur.
I could anticipate the cellos kicking in towards the end too.

There's always a big drop in voltage when AC current gets rectified - so IMO the circuit will be expecting more like 15 v DC.

Necro like - having an afternoon of idly listening to Your tunes here

Enjoyed those - sounds like Michael Karoli on guitar and vox!

Bonkerz!

Great stuff - very impressive.
Glass meets Chopin?
Particularly like the left hand adding that bit of sinister (haha) tension.

... But the archetypal bands like Can and Neu! I just don't enjoy listening to. You've not heard Can's Future Days? Their most symphonic album (but skip the track Spray). Or try side 2 of Soon Over Babaluma - the frenetic proto techno of Chain Reaction followed by the more cosmiche Quantum Physics.

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Also Grant B I fail to see what the problem is with labelling some Nigerian (West African) music as classical - I'm thinking Toumani Diabate and other kora players. Isn't classical a short hand for courtly music, as opposed to folk music? You may see that as a false value judgement but it's just a w...

Younger teen or older teen?
A three octave keyboard with some drum pads might be fun though depends how happy she is with a 'proper' instrument.
Such a lot of good stuff to learn with something physical rather than an app!

Wow thanks for the link to that documentary GrantB - wonderful stuff!

You can only hear it in the last 2 seconds - not adding much it has to be said.
Andy Mackay very fetching though.

when every tone and effect edit is destructive. anyone know if you can get reaper to do this? I use an older version of audacity when I need to do edits or some quick mixing, but the rest is on 4-track cassette. I use it because of the destructive edits, though there's undo till you close the progr...

Why would anybody be complaining about a piece of free open source software that nobody is being forced to use? I think it's fine to complain if it doesn't work well. Consider it feedback to the developers. They chose to offer it - they need to know what's wrong. I've used multi track editors and A...