Turning a linear taper into an audio taper

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

i have a hadful of small 1M and 100K pots, with the ingenious plan of buying a whole lot of them and just using resistors to knock them into place  :shock:  (ok, so i'm slow at this sometimes...)

what is the taper on audio pots? how do i want to set it up ? is it a 3/5 sort of thing, or a 4/5? even a 9/10, maybe...?

thanks in advance!

[lightningfingers]

Read "The Secret Life Of Pots" at Geo. More pot-related fun than you can shake a soldering iron at  

[robbiemcm]

Read "The Secret Life Of Pots" at Geo. More pot-related fun than you can shake a soldering iron at  

nice one

[Phorhas]

http://sound.westhost.com/project01.htm

Check this out

[Joe Davisson]

This calculates the piggyback resistor values for converting pots:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/analogalchemy/emh/emh.html

You'd put in 50% for linear, and 10% or 90% for log. It doesn't convert log-2-log yet.

[radio]

Hi

log 2 log works too :shock:  :shock:

that s 1 thing I learned for today

Thanks for sharing

Greetings JMErnzer

[MartyB]

Joe!  Thanks for that cool site and post.  Thanks to Peter also!  I had no idea I could do those things with pots.

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

thanks joe! i've use your pot calculator before, but i wasn't sure what percentage i was looking for!

[nelson]

What about reverse log? would you simply switch round the resistors?

[puretube]

yes