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After having a quick look in the search bar it doesn't seem like this has been posted here so thought id make a thread for anyone interested in making loopers -

I miss the old school Alps faders with the long cut-in time — it makes for funkier cuts, IMO. The new school faders are cool, but it's more on/off, even after adjusting the cut-in time. I feel like you can accomplish better/stronger stabs and chirp variations with the Alps faders. Essentially, I think Alps faders lend themselves to more of a gray area in between the cuts, and therefore not just black and white in terms of sound. Just listen to old school Qbert and DJ Shadow tracks and you'll know what I'm on about.

free to download here - Patreon seems to compress the image which degrades the quality so make sure to expand the image then right click and select open image in a new tab then right click to save file from that image otherwise it comes out all pixelated - https://www.patreon.com/djchile

Hey man! That's the thing, it's definitely not *necessary* at all. I was visiting a friend and he was showing me some DIY thing he was building with 60mm faders and asked if I've tried that for scratch-based stuff and I was puzzled as to why not. Obviously most of the "action" happens in that 10mm range at the edge of it (trad or hamster), but it got me thinking about using "the rest" of the fader throw for more detailed control of other parameters. In my case I tend to do weird mappings with a DIY fader anyways, so it seemed like an interesting thing to explore. I will try cleaning/lubing an alps one, but was just curious if there was some off-the-shelf things to try too.