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Pots

Allright so here's the deal:

I got an old B&O reciever with one chanel blown that i changed into a guitar amp, using the phono in works fine for my crappy home made pickups, but whenever someone with a real guitar comes by they only have one option: heavy distortion, since their output is way bigger then mine.

So I was thinking that i wanted to put a pot on the wire leading into the phono in so i can get clean sounds when i want to....

Now, i don't know jack about what the things pots say mean, i built some effects, but only by following schematics and doing what i'm told, so in this case i'm lost.

What kind of pot should i get? how many K's and what type?

thanks in advance!

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Permalink Reply by smojo on May 5, 2012 at 3:35am

There doesn't seem much point in adding a pot to the input, just turn the vol pot down on the guitar - same effect - lowering the signal level.

Permalink Reply by anotola humbuckker on May 5, 2012 at 8:14am

true, but that doesn't work for accoustic pickups, or at least not all accoustic pickups.

We ran into this situation a couple of times, it's hardly a big problem, but i figured for the price of a pot and 2 minutes of soldering i would get some more options on this amp.

Permalink Reply by wormil on May 23, 2012 at 3:46am