5E3 Pre-phase inverter master volume not muting signal

[professormudd]

Greetings,

I built 2 5e3s, both of which I have added the pre phase inverter master volume modification as laid out on Rob Robinette's site. I notice that while it does significantly reduce volume, it never mutes. I verified the pot sweep on my multimeter. I was wondering if this is typical. If not, do you have any recommendations for what to check?

If this is typical, can you recommend a more effective master volume implementation?

I did try the "Trainwreck style" post phase inverter master volume as described on the same site, and it definitely muted, but there was very little sweep. It was more of a mute dial than anything. It was mute at 0, and crazy loud any higher.

[sluckey]

That pre PIMV will not totally kill the sound. The design will not allow total muting. Usually not a problem though.

[thetragichero]

makes sense that it doesn't totally mute since at minimum there's 56k to ground