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what the hell? does nobody carry an Audio taper pot, rated at 20K?!?

or if i can find a 25K pot, what resister can i add to make it 20k? can i even do this? am i just wasting time here?

smallbear has a workalike of the "G" 20K pot for the Tube Screamer. what does this mean? does anyone know if it's audio taper or linear? i'm dying here!!!

linky

It's neither - it has a taper that resembles an S curve. Often called w-taper. Said to be close to the one Ibanez used in the TS.

What do you need it for? If this is for a TS, several people have reported better results by replacing the tone pot with a 2K pot...

K

no, it's not. i dropped my Demeter Opto-Comp this morning and broke one of the pots off the wafer. sucks. been searching for about 3 hours now trying to find a replacement.

How is the pot wired, voltage divider or series resistor?

K

uh... it's the volume pot. so i guess series resistor? not sure what either of those are, really.

The simplest solution in this case is to make an A20k pot by adding a resistor in parallel lug 1 to lug 3 on a log pot of a higher value. So, got any spare audio log pots floating around?

K

unfortunately no. and fry's only carries 10k or 50k. pooty. i can order a 25k from mouser, cuz smallbear also only carries 10k or 50k and nothing inbetween. but i'd rather get one local, so i can have my pedal back up and running as soon as possible.

if i got a 50k pot, what value of resistor would i use? 30k? do they even make those?

33.3k. Believe it or not, that's actually a standard value. But a 22k and a 10k in series will get you close enough, if you have some of those.

K

everyone sing along!!

"have i told you lately that i love you? have i told you there's no-one else above you? you fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, troubleshoot my pedals, that's what you do."

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K