9v Guitar Amp w/out LM386

[BobK]

Nice, but does it go to 11?

Bob

 

[Don Perry]

http://www.jameco.com/z/PMD-401-K-Potentiometer-Linear-Taper-10-Detents-125Watts-10K-Ohm-11-Positions_163563.html?CID=GOOG&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIie-ChcX_1QIVBLXACh3jZA2jEAkYASABEgL2zvD_BwE

Yes.

 

[Audioguru]

Your hearing's sensitivity to loudness is logarithmic so you can hear a pin drop but also hear something that is extremely loud.

The linear potentiometer is not a logarithmic volume control. If you turn it down from max to half then the audio level will be reduced only a little, but a log volume control will turn down the audio level quite a lot. If you turn up the linear pot from minimum to just a little higher then the audio level will suddenly turn on fairly high, but a log volume control will turn on the sound level only a little.

 

[Don Perry]

Your hearing's sensitivity to loudness is logarithmic so you can hear a pin drop but also hear something that is extremely loud.

The linear potentiometer is not a logarithmic volume control. If you turn it down from max to half then the audio level will be reduced only a little, but a log volume control will turn down the audio level quite a lot. If you turn up the linear pot from minimum to just a little higher then the audio level will suddenly turn on fairly high, but a log volume control will turn on the sound level only a little.

Why don't they install log pots on guitars? I've always wondered why that was the case with volume pots...

 

[Audioguru]

Aren't electric geetars played at full blast with tons of overdrive distortion? They never turn down the level (they like the awful fuzz sounds).

The input of the amplifier has a log volume control.

 

[davenn]

Aren't electric geetars played at full blast with tons of overdrive distortion? They never turn down the level (they like the awful fuzz sounds).

depends on the music style