Re: Good electric bass for upright sound?

On 2005-11-09, Doug Kanter <ancientangler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Usually when you find a volume control that seems all "bunched up" at
>> the end, it means that a linear taper rather than an audio taper pot
>> was installed.
>>
>> Benj
>>
>
> OK, but why would Epiphone do that, and repeatedly insist that it's correct?
> My cynical guess is that they don't want to fix however many of them are out
> there in the world.
>
>

a way to use a linear pot as a volume pot:

<http://sound.westhost.com/project01.htm>

rather clever i thought. and easy to retrofit to your bass..

cheers,

timbo

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