It COULD be though. 
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These sort of footprint mis-matches are exactly why im worried about my pcb designs.
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At some point, you’ll end up designing all the footprints yourself, to make sure they’re 110% correct
(I usually use library footprints, but I tend to double-check the hole sizes, and after I ended up with a bunch of power modules where 1N400x library footprint I had picked had the silkscreen backwards, I now triple-check that one as well 
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No footprint errors per se on my VCF board, but I neglected to carefully check the potentiometers to make sure they were wired the right way. I did use the same terminal numbering as Wilson did on the cutoff and resonance pots, but one came out right and the other wrong. Which probably isn’t surprising, Wilson used panel mounted pots and wired them up the way that made sense, not according to terminal numbers on the schematic. As for the three pots I added I got all three of them wrong too. So the module works, if you don’t mind 4 out of 5 pots operating backwards.
NARRATOR: He does mind.
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It’s not wrong, it’s just that it’s for a jack that apparently is commonly used in, and available from, Germany.
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See that sounds less of a hassle since you define everything.
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Wooo! My KOSMO ADSR finally arrived!
As well as a bunch of 9mm Pots (A500k, B10k, and B100k)
Also all of my Power Supply components came!
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On closer examination both these and the panel I got recently have some… problematic examples.
Details:
There are more boards than I need and the rest of them look okay and they’re stupid cheap, so I’m not about to go ballistic, but still, not good, JLCPCB.
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that’s not good! I checked my stuff from JLPCB found no manufacturing errors 
I guess in these times, quality control has lapsed. 
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You guys should all check this out, got mine the other day.
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Oh wow, that’s crazy I love it!
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Ha! I got one of those a few weeks ago as well. I’ve had the chance to use a vintage 101 on occasion starting in 1992 and always wanted one.
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Got this Circuit Slices ADSR today!
My only gripe on build quality is the jacks solder job… lol
And apparently dudes never heard of a Thonkiconn (PJ301M-12) jack…
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I’ve done that, Tayda sells a jack that’s footprint compatible with Thonkiconns but with the ground a lug on the side. In fact that’s what’s shown in the instructions for the Nonlinear Circuits Timbre module I built. BOM shows the Tayda jack and says “or you can get better ones from Thonk”. Nothing wrong with that if the jacks are good enough (and so far they’ve been good enough).
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I have both the neutron and deepmind and enjoy them immensely. As for Hainbach’s comment about having no soul, i have to say bollocks!
I have a huge respect for Hainbach (seriously he’s a great bloke) but judgements based on soul are meaningless to me. It’s like people spending hundreds of bucks on a soviet era capacitor for better guitar tone. Values are values, specs are specs and if you feel your gear lacks soul then it’s because you haven’t fed enough of your own in!
DIY and other interests can be hard enough to absorb without respectable influencers in the field throwing immeasurable ‘woo-woo’ into the mix.
Sigh! I’m done!
Except to say Casiotone, the Dx7, fender Rhodes, bit one, korg M1 and bloomin Yamaha portasound dinky-boards have all had the soulless criticism in the past.
Now I’m done!
Remind me not to post just after my meds.
Forgive the rant.
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To be fair, I think Hainbach meant more in the “morally bankrupt” sense of having no soul.
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Which by extension would make our DIY efforts illegitimate plagiarism of old electrical circuits?
I’m kidding but it’s interesting where you draw the line between passion and ‘soulless’ exploitation.
Does having your milkshake served in a recycled jam jar by a beardy bloke who hand split the vanilla make it more worthy than a paper cup from MacDonalds? Nah, its down to budget and taste and behringer’s offerings taste like everyone else’s… I’m off topic and lost my thread sorry mate!
I guess I find the attitude that just because its from a big company it must be less in some way than some boutique startup odd.
That said. I repeat - I have no problem with Hainbach. Lets just stick to the measurable facts. (God now I sound soulless!!)
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It’s really nothing to do with the quality of the products to me. Behringer’s build quality seems ace these days. I don’t feel entirely great about a giant company cloning on this scale without license. It’s very different from DIY’ing a System 100 LFO. But I still want the clones for myself and there’s a lot to be said for how synths and drum machines that used to be 10x the price on the used market—if you could even find them—being available to anyone and affordable for most. I feel conflicted enough that I didn’t post my MS-1 in the mail day thread when I got it. Still have a list of clones I will be buying.
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