chroma caps or similar for my Allen and Heath xone 4D?
anyone know of any coloured caps that will fit on my Allen and Heath xone 4D?
my searching came up with mouser selling some caps Access to this page has been denied.
but i was wondering about the chroma caps from djtt. they are much better colors
im from the uk if that makes a difference?
In the store, Chroma Caps do not seem to be compatible with Xone 4D… Perhaps somebody else gave it a try…
Concerning the sliders, someone ordered slider’s caps from the GS mixing board series for the 1D shaped part of the mixer and used spare filter knobs and fader from the A&H DB4.
Everything is there : Xone 4D slider caps and filter knobs change
I suggest you to pm him. He might help you…
I have a k2 and a xone22. Because of the way A&H does their knobs on those 2 units, the chroma caps do not line up (the white line on the knob is not accurate). The faders did fit on the 22 but sit a little bit high it looked like.
Id imagine its similar for other products, at least knob-engineering wise.
Shame they don’t fit…
The only way to change the caps is to use replacement ones for other Allen & Heath models.
No third party ones available… Unless maybe those eagle plastic parts ones sold by mouser?
Who is the manufacturer of the chroma caps?
Do you:
-Dislike the appearance of the 4D?
-Do you crave to express yourself through knob colours?
-Do you regularly visit events where you may accidentally switch 4D’s wit other owners?
-or do you dislike the feel of the knobs?
Each may be solvable in different ways.
no.
possibly.
there is only me with a 4D and Paul Van Dyk with a custom 3D who I know play trance music.
no… never played anywhere else.
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-or do you dislike the feel of the knobs?
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no. they are fine.
maybe the answer is that i want something different to keep my setup interesting.
my setup:
You could use the spare joystic connector to make a custom controller and put any knob you like on it. Here’s mine: Boarderbas's setup history
modify them to fit?
is it possible to drill out the caps so they are a round push fit? and if the pot stems on the 4D need shortening, then I could easily cut them.
wrap ptfe tape around the stems if they are a bit loose.
worth trying?
If the caps are round then they won’t turn the pots. The pots have flatted stems for this reason.
I don’t think the knobs on the A&H are grooved IIRC. It’s been a while.
If you cut it, it’s gonna loook pretty ghetto IMO.
I see that DJTT has now added to the range of Chroma Caps…
the 90degree and the encoder.
I’m thinking that these may possibly fit?
They show a shot of an A&H DB mixer on the Chroma Caps page.
So would they fit the 4D? (assuming A&H post stems are the same?
I have tried each of the different 4D caps on the other pot stems, and they fit any pot stem / encoder on the 4D