[sdiy] Has anyone used Mackie Pots for a project?

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>Mine is the VLZ, has been good.
>
>I resorted to just flat out asking mouser, digi-key and newark if Mackie
>buys from them. I'm somewhat sure that they used Xicom/Alpha pots in my
>Mackie, but can't be too sure just yet.

Digikey have some pots from Panasonic, that are nearly exactly like the pots
Mackie uses...Single pots cost less than $1 each.  I used a bunch of them in
an analog sequencer, and they work alright for that.  I found that the pots
by themselves aren't too tough, and the shafts wiggle, unless you have them
going through a very small, well aligned hole in the panel, to add support.

I think Panasonic might be distributing some of the patrs we used to get
from Alps a while back.  They have several lines of pots that look like ones
that Alps used to do, including the mid-priced (~$25) rail faders.

Byron Jacquot