Potentiometers: what do you suggest??

Troy Sheets tsheets at saturn5.com
Mon Jun 9 19:54:12 CEST 1997


No, you can't find the pots I am talking about at radio shack.

Radio shack has complete crap in terms of descrete electronic componets...
the lowest quality out there.

-troy

> 
> Troy Sheets <tsheets at saturn5.com> writes:
> 
> > I really like the Mouser brand pots with the 1" diamater assembly.  Yes,
> > they are pretty big and take up a lot of space on your panal, but they
> > are only a buck each and the action is on them so right-on.  Besides
> > being silky-smooth, they are the kind of pots that once you start moving
> > them, they have some momentum so that you can do really smooth sweeps.
> 
> You mean the ones with the "a" in a circle on the back?  I got one of
> those at Radio Shaft many many years ago and stuck it in a wah pedal.
> It went scratchy extremely quickly.  I still have some that are about
> 13 years old and have barely been used and they even feel scratchy.
> 
> Tom.
> 

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