Posted by Julian Perry on November 2, 2009 at 4:06am
Hi all, you're gonna have to excuse my ignorance again but....I just bought a pair of volume and tone pots off the intraweb and they look exactly the same to me! Are they basically the same? I have no electrical knowledge further than just soldering a piezo to an output jack, but I take it the pot's work by increasing / decreasing resistance in the circuit? I really only want to fit a volume one at this stage, so was wondering if they both do the same job? Any advice would be gratefully recieved. Cheers all.
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Thanks for the help guys! From the info you've given me and the links in Naz's reply, I've worked out I have an audio and a linear pot. The audio is now fitted as a volume in my first CBG and although it seems I probably could use the linear one as volume also, I think I will save it to use as a tone in a future build. They are pretty cheap after-all!!
Thanks again guys, I knew I could rely on 'The Nation'.
the short and long yes. but there are diffent kinds of pots
for the most part you want 250k for single coil and 500k for humbuckers but as far as a tone and volume i try to use the exact same pot on a given guitar no matter what the value or if its audio tapper or lienier tapper.
Nice one Naz, thanks for those links they look really useful. I will study them in my lunch-break. Will have a look at the pots also as I deffo remember seeing numbers printed on them, but can't remember what they are. Cheers.
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Thanks again guys, I knew I could rely on 'The Nation'.
for the most part you want 250k for single coil and 500k for humbuckers but as far as a tone and volume i try to use the exact same pot on a given guitar no matter what the value or if its audio tapper or lienier tapper.