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I have a BCD3000 and I love MOST of it. My biggest complaints are the buttons and knobs are way too close together, the jogwheel is too small and too close to my pitch faders, and the buttons are too small. My plan is to open the controller up, remove the pcb, buttons, faders etc. And mount them all into a larger case. I work at RIM, so I have quite a few friends with solder experience, but I'm wondering if anyone else has tried something like this. I don't have the extra $$ to just buy a larger controller so I want to mod my bcd.