Tag Archives: guitar pots

Pot Values – How do they affect my sound?

The big question… Do I use 250k, 300k, 500k, or 1meg pots in my guitar? Well… the answer is… it depends. The way pot values work is this: the lower the number on the pot (25k, 100k, 250k, etc), the more highs the pot will attenuate (or bleed off) from your signal the higher the number […]

Audio or linear taper pots? What’s the difference?

Volume and tone controls. Potentiometers. Pots. The Voodoo of the Guitar World, indeed. What is the difference between audio taper and linear taper potentiometers? And which should you use? Traditionally, audio taper pots have been used in volume control positions and linear taper pots have been used in tone control settings. We don’t pretend to […]