I am wondering how important it is to keep a pot taper % while building a project? There are a lot of amps which have a range from 30% to 15% to 10% depending on the pot. For example fender are usually 30% everywhere except for bass which is 10%
Would you advise to always stick to specs % of the pots?
[Question] Pot Taper %
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Re: [Question] Pot Taper %
Any value without a tolerance is an aspiration rather than a specification.
Unless spending big money, tolerances aren't provided for pot tapers, so in reality they're just 'indicative' rather than an actual spec.
From a user interface perspective, a 30% taper bass control in a BF tone stack seems to give rather different results than a 10% type.
Later SF amps tended to use a 30% taper tone control pots and they seem a lot more bassy than when a 10% pot is swapped in.
Aa an extreme example, the DrZ EZG50 uses a linear bass control in a BF tone stack, which makes the amp seem really bassy, and regular bass levels a real hair trigger to set.
So yes, it probably matters.
Unless spending big money, tolerances aren't provided for pot tapers, so in reality they're just 'indicative' rather than an actual spec.
From a user interface perspective, a 30% taper bass control in a BF tone stack seems to give rather different results than a 10% type.
Later SF amps tended to use a 30% taper tone control pots and they seem a lot more bassy than when a 10% pot is swapped in.
Aa an extreme example, the DrZ EZG50 uses a linear bass control in a BF tone stack, which makes the amp seem really bassy, and regular bass levels a real hair trigger to set.
So yes, it probably matters.
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