hello ! newbe need advice :P

[marshall-gibson]

hello to you all!
my name is roy and this is my first post here,
i just got bitten by the diy pedal bug,,,and i'm starting to collect all kind of parts to start building my own .

i was wondering if you could tell me what is the difference between a linear pot and an audio pot..
i'm basically looking for regular tone and volume pots for an overdrive..
which one should i get?? :?  
thanks in advance!!

[RLBJR65]

Hi Roy, welcome to the forum!

You will mostly need linear pots but both are needed at times.
Up for a little reading?

R.G. Keen has a great artical about pot's. The secret life of pots.
http://www.geofex.com/Article_Folders/potsecrets/potscret.htm

Try this too, ESP's beginners guide to potentiometers. http://sound.westhost.com/pots.htm

Enjoy,
Richard

[Thomas P.]

I believe one of the good manners in this forum is to advice you to read one of the various FAQ's, such as DIY FAQ and GEO FAQ, which are great sources of knowledge (I mean it!).
One further advice: If you're a newbe please do a well documented project first, where such things as "which pot for volume" etc. are noted. This will prevent you from a lot of trouble, which is good since (I believe 99.9% of all the recent builders here will agree) the real trouble starts with getting the actual thing to work properly!

Regards (and good luck),
tomboy

[marshall-gibson]

thank you guy's!

i never read so much new articles at such short time
so much to learn,,,,so little time
:wink:

[marshall-gibson]

..so correct me if i'm wrong, the linear pots can be used both as volume pots, as tone pots ?
:?:

[Connoisseur of Distortion]

you can do it, but you probably don't want to. if you do, it'll sound like there is little change in volume in one section, and a huge change in another. this is because we detect sound logarithmically.

i myself actually use linear pots for everything, but that's just because i am lazy  :wink:

[Thomas P.]

sure you can but as the connoisseur already said it makes little sens in some cases. Especially for volume since the human ear itself works logatrithmic you will notice a bigger effect at one end and little to no effect on the other end of the pot but best would be you try it yourself!

Regards,
tomboy