Exciting poll about labelling controls on guitars

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu May 25, 2017 7:47 am

It's like someone getting all their tattoos oriented upside down so they can see them... just doesn't happen man.

Also everyone who's posted says Hate but like still winning the poll... show yourselves stand by your vote you cowardly likers

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Thu May 25, 2017 8:58 am

dezb1 wrote:It's like someone getting all their tattoos oriented upside down so they can see them... just doesn't happen man.

Also everyone who's posted says Hate but like still winning the poll... show yourselves stand by your vote you cowardly likers

Can you show me a synth with the panel controls labelled towards the audience, as well as slanted that way so they can read the controls better?

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Thu May 25, 2017 9:53 am

No, man. Synth players are real musicians, we are talking about guitars here

Post by **Doog** » Thu May 25, 2017 10:13 am

Fakir Mustache wrote:
dezb1 wrote:It's like someone getting all their tattoos oriented upside down so they can see them... just doesn't happen man.

Also everyone who's posted says Hate but like still winning the poll... show yourselves stand by your vote you cowardly likers
Can you show me a synth with the panel controls labelled towards the audience, as well as slanted that way so they can read the controls better?

loooole

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Thu May 25, 2017 10:31 am

timhulio wrote:Reason for the poll- I've got to design the scratchplate for this Musima I'm fixing, which has some added preamp/fuzz stuff. So, lots of labels and I'm looking for inspiration as to how to orientate them. I do like the way Hopf have done it, with mysterious abbreviations at all crazy angles. I'll poast my scratchplate when I've something I like.

I think for standard guitar controls labelling would be a bit superfluous. As (the other) Tim said, you'd only need to look at them a couple of times before you knew where everything was. Given what you're doing, however, it might be a good idea to have some sort of labelling if you're going to have lots of switches/knobs.

Maybe go for some weird symbols instead of letters like on Orange amps? Then they wouldn't be upside down.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu May 25, 2017 12:48 pm

Fakir Mustache wrote:
dezb1 wrote:It's like someone getting all their tattoos oriented upside down so they can see them... just doesn't happen man.

Also everyone who's posted says Hate but like still winning the poll... show yourselves stand by your vote you cowardly likers
Can you show me a synth with the panel controls labelled towards the audience, as well as slanted that way so they can read the controls better?

Synths have slightly more controls than a guitars 3 way selector and volume and tone pot... butvi get your point.

George · Post by **George** » Thu May 25, 2017 1:05 pm

Synths are facing the player not the audience lol, and also far more complex where you would actually need some amount of labelling to use it on the fly.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Thu May 25, 2017 1:59 pm

dezb1 wrote:butvi get your point

Is it some kind of a terrible Scottish insult?

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu May 25, 2017 2:32 pm

sunshiner wrote:
dezb1 wrote:butvi get your point
Is it some kind of a terrible Scottish insult?

It is now... "so but 6 you as well pal"

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Thu May 25, 2017 3:16 pm

Mad-Mike · Post by **Mad-Mike** » Thu May 25, 2017 7:29 pm

I don't hate it but I don't need them and almost have no feeling on them either way.

I always thought putting stickers or a diagram on the guitar that are removable would have been a good idea, I've seen some makers (Cort, that company in Japan that made the Jaguar copies with no Rhythm Circuit, and Vox I thnk) actually do that. I can see how it might help someone who is new to guitar, but to someone like me, I'm pretty good at figuring these things out myself as I assume most other people are.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri May 26, 2017 2:51 pm

Righto. Good feedback. I agree with all of it.

This is where I'm at now:

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri May 26, 2017 4:53 pm

Nice mockup.

If you're going to do screen printing or labeling you could experiment with some accent lines to the pickguard. But that might be gilding the lily, so to speak.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri May 26, 2017 8:26 pm

Thanks. I think you're right. The Musima originally has this accent, but Framus and Hopf don't. Because it's a black guitar I reckon it's needed.

I'm nuts for these upside-down controls.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri May 26, 2017 8:30 pm

I like it.

What program are using to draw these sketches?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri May 26, 2017 8:37 pm

Like, makes more sense.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri May 26, 2017 9:00 pm

jcyphe wrote:I like it.

What program are using to draw these sketches?

I'm attempting to relearn Illustrator. Some of those curves still need a bit of work...

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 9:48 am

Almost done! I got the custom pickguard made by Scratch-It, who were super professional and helpful. Really pleased with the result.
http://www.originalscratchplates.com/

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:09 pm

Looks good.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:58 pm

NickS wrote:Looks good.

Exciting poll about labelling controls on guitars

The way the labels on this Hopf Telstar are upside-down and oritentated toward the player