Poll: Do you prefer Side- or Top-mounted jacks?

[ElectricDruid]

Ok, I'm interested to know - side or top-mounting jacks?

The background to this is I did my recent DigiDelay PCB with cutouts for side-mounting jacks. While this suits some people, it doesn't suit everyone. So I'm interested to know if there's a definite preference. If there is, you can expect future Druid PCBs to be arranged for the most popular option (if I can't arrange for both).

I suppose a secondary (and related) question is "Landscape or Portrait?" E.g. which way around would you want the classic 1590BB box? Tall or wide?

Finally, I do realise you can't please all the people all the time! But if you can make more people happy, that's good, right?!

Thanks!
Tom

[Kipper4]

I likes  my
Jacks Side mounted. Traditionalist for some wierd reason.

1590BB landscape, unless theres only a few pots.

Is there a sausage prize Tom?

[Bill Mountain]

Top jacks or death. 

Portrait or landscape depending on the circuit and the number of knobs.  Four or five in a row? Either.  Six or above stacked in multiple rows?  Portrait.

[digi2t]

Top. Always.

[jubal81]

Top. Power on top, too.

[vigilante397]

Power on top, in/out jacks on sides. Feels weird to do it any other way.

[stonerbox]

Top Top! 

[antonis]

Side for ever...!!!!!

[ElectricDruid]

Is there a sausage prize Tom?

Would you like there to be? We have some very good chorizos down here. How would we decide who gets it?

As I suspected, you lot can't agree on anything


T

[Ice-9]

Power on top, in/out jacks on sides. Feels weird to do it any other way.

^ This

[karbomusic]

Either is fine, it's having them mixed (which I can't seem to escape as long as any of my pedals are purchased) that stinks the most. The only problem I have with top is that of the times I have used it, I had to use a 125B to accommodate and though 125B/BB is great I don't care for the larger form factor generally.

[Cozybuilder]

For anything larger than 1590A, top mounted jacks (I-O & Power).

[samhay]

This has come up before.
You will not find a consensus and if you're lucky, people will start arguing about whether it's the 'top', or the 'back', or the ...

FWIW, I very much prefer top-mounted jacks. 

I've been meaning to congratulate you on the delay too - nice work. I hadn't seen that model of pic before either and am eagerly awaiting an RS delivery so I can play with one.

[rutabaga bob]

I generally use side mounting on 'real' enclosures (as my son calls the 1590 stuff), but use top mounting when putting things in metal 4" square electrical junction boxes.

[banjerpickin]

I find the key is to use vintage 60's jacks, then it doesn't matter where you put them.  That gives you the best vintage toan. 

[deadastronaut]

you cant please all the people all the time...so sod em..

sides...power on top. 

[GGBB]

Top/back in, out, and power. I like my pedals to touch each other just in case one of the input jacks comes loose and I lose ground. 

[EBK]

Top mount on a 1590bb or 1590bs.  Side mount on a 1590b.  Essentially, top mount if I can get input, output, and power all on the top.

[bloxstompboxes]

If I can get all three on top, then I like a top mount. But I have found it so much easier to do side mounts. Most of my builds are in 1590B. I can do top mounts in 125B but it is harder to achieve for me. I agree that it sucks to have them mixed, which I do.

[R.G.]

I'd prefer attacking the systems thinking for modern pedalboards.

I'd prefer 1/8" jacks for pedals, with an "off-pedalboard" minibox to convert to the 1/4" jacks we can never get rid of.

This question reminds me of a similar inquiry to see whether people in the early 1900s would prefer a surrey or a buckboard. And that's a contemporary question. The 1/4" phone plug goes back to about 1878. 

Here we are still (ab)using it 138 years later.