A or B?
I've read different things about who likes what and why. I have these pots in a guitar that are like an on/off switch with no taper at all, so wondering what taper would give me a smooth gradient between them. I use B taper in pedals but wondering if there's better for guitar purposes.
Tone pot taper?
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Re: Tone pot taper?
B for me. The log taper does nothing useful for setting a low pass filter
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Re: Tone pot taper?
Wide open or completely off are the only two settings I use so I'm about as useful as this comment.
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Re: Tone pot taper?
I had to google what A and B even meant
I have to disagree. While science says that a linear taper reduces treble smoothly, the treble above a certain point is killed elsewhere in the signal chain (like the tone control on your pedals / amp), and thus becomes irrelevant.
We use a heavy audio taper (15%) which in most cases has a noticeable effect below 7, and is pretty smooth below that point.
For reference, the 15% taper means that at 5 on a 250k pot, the resistance is only 37k, which is a good balanced tone, where with a linear taper, the resistance would be 125k, and not noticeably different to being set at 10.
I have to disagree. While science says that a linear taper reduces treble smoothly, the treble above a certain point is killed elsewhere in the signal chain (like the tone control on your pedals / amp), and thus becomes irrelevant.
We use a heavy audio taper (15%) which in most cases has a noticeable effect below 7, and is pretty smooth below that point.
For reference, the 15% taper means that at 5 on a 250k pot, the resistance is only 37k, which is a good balanced tone, where with a linear taper, the resistance would be 125k, and not noticeably different to being set at 10.
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