Hey Everyone,
I'm about to start building another of these for my studio. (The first one worked almost straight away, with little troubleshooting, which always makes me paranoid.

I may be back with troubleshooting and/or calibration questions if this one doesn't cooperate so easily, but we'll see). Anyway, I have two questions as I'm looking toward this build.
First, I absolutely hate the pots that are used for Threshold and Makeup. They feel so loose and flimsy, and it gives me the
bad kind of "homemade" vibes to turn those knobs (they work just fine, I just can't stand the feel). Is there any reason that I couldn't use a different 50k pot in these locations, skip the adapter boards, and just run the wire connections back to the appropriate pads on the control board?
Second, the LED bargraph portion of the control board seems to have some scoring between it and the rest of the board. I don't think there are any traces running across that scoring, so I'm assuming that it can be detached and moved elsewhere for a different frontpanel configuration (I'm putting this one in a 2ru case, so I've got some room to play). My question is, how would you go about mounting it if you were to do that?