There's 2 parts to the channel strips - the switches/faders (lower section) and the pots (upper section) - this covers the lower section. What made this part real easy was using strip-boards. Otherwise known as vero-boards or matrix-boards they are copper etched PCB's with holes pre-drilled in a grid with standard size and layout. Commonly used for prototyping, they usually have copper strips or dots so all you need do is fit your components, solder them in place and you have a nice straight square layout without having to tool anything.
Cut and sand the 4 boards down to size and drill holes for the mounting pins on the faders.
Solder the faders in place, then snap in and solder the the tactile switches. In order to cut the copper tracks where needed I used a Dremel because I already had one and it was easy, you could use a razor, file or I'm sure there's expensive overpriced tools made for the task too.
Finally solder the grounding wires for the switches using wire-wrap then make and fit the fly cables for connecting the switches and faders to the MB modules (AIN & DIN).
I was pretty happy with the end result and didn't make any screw-ups which was awesome.
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