Tone pot taper?

[NippleWrestler]

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.

[TmcB]

B for me. The log taper does nothing useful for setting a low pass filter

[jeremyb]

Wide open or completely off are the only two settings I use so I'm about as useful as this comment.

[JustMatt]

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.

[sizzlingbadger]

Have fun... http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/p ... tscret.htm

[murky]

The old centralabs were about a 10% taper, they used them for volume and tone, and they sound great. 50’s wiring of course.