Audio or Linear Taper Pots
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gball
Ambassador of Boogie
^ This. 100%
Gahr
Ambassador of Blues & Brews
This might very well be my imagination (@DonP, please correct me if It’s just my mind playing tricks on me!), but I seem get different results with different pots (audio vs. linear) depending on which amp volume I play at. If I play at a low amp volume getting my gain from turning the volume up and master volume down, audio pots seem to lower my gain drastically very quickly. If I use linear pots the effect is not as great. If playing at a higher volume on a non-master volume amp, I seem to get less of a drastic drop in gain with audio pots and almost too little of an effect from linear ones. I haven’t experimented enough with this, and I have a lot to learn regarding the use of the pots on the guitar. But what I have learned so far is that there is a whole world of tones, literally at your fingertips, just by twisting the knobs on the guitar.
DonP
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Not your imagination. That is a direct result of high volume compression. When that is going on, you can turn the volume down quite a long way before you hear the volume change. At low levels with no compression you hear the true taper.
Not really much of a controversy here. It's more a matter of taste. But, I agree with DonP.
I've never tried linear for tone. All the guitars I've ever had have come with audio taper for both volume and tone. That's pretty much been the response I've always known, so in my own mods I tend to do the same thing.
I've never tried linear for tone. All the guitars I've ever had have come with audio taper for both volume and tone. That's pretty much been the response I've always known, so in my own mods I tend to do the same thing.
