"W" Taper pots?

[any]

Hey,

In re-housing resurrecting my Digitech Multiplay 20/20 If found it uses 100k and 500k "W" taper pots.
Now, I since found out there's 20k "W" taper pots available for tube screamers, but haven't found any source for
other values in a "W" taper. (namely a 100k W and 500k W)

Apart from subbing for log/lin (and if so would lin be the better choice?) Do any of you know any source that has the
ubiquitous alpha 9mm in these values?

Kind Regards,

[scratch]

can't help you with what you are looking for, but I too would be interested in a source of W taper pots.

I've been looking around at some Parametric EQ circuits and a number of these use the W taper pots in the cut/boost section of the parametrics. the darn things are impossible to find!

[EATyourGuitar]

tayda, smallbear, mouser, digikey

[Kesh]

tayda, smallbear, mouser, digikey

tayda and smallbear only do 20K ones. not checked the others

[any]

think I'm running out of places to check... seems like no one is carrying them?

Is anyone able to predict what the difference will be when subbed with a linear type?

Regeneration, Delay Time and Generation are all 100k W.

[Keppy]

W taper is reverse log up to the midpoint, but regular log after that. This means that most of the pot's rotation gives resistance values close to the middle. With a linear pot, the midpoint should sound the same, but as you turn the pot up or down you will approach the extreme values faster that with a W.

Many people have used a linear pot in place of the W20k TS tone pot for years. You'll be fine. It would be more of an issue if it was a wah pot or something like that.