motorised pots

[Bill Layer]

At 02:06 AM 7/15/98 +1000, you wrote:
>anyone using or knowing sources of motorised pots?
>I can get some twin 10k ones but 1. they look pretty cheapo and
>2. they take 10 seconds to travel around! which makes them useless 
>for the effects processor I am designing.
>I was hoping to have the pots rotate to the appropriate positions
>when a patch is called up from memory. I notice that even the latest 
>Yamaha guitar amps have 96 memories and rotating knobs!!!!!
>
>paul perry melb australia
>
>Paul,

In a nutshell, yes I do know where you can get this. The story: Back in the
old days, the Atma-Sphere MP-1 preamp used a pair of servo-driven pots to
control DC offset in the output section. Well, to make a long story short,
we developed a much better way to do this, and subsequently, as units came
in for update the motors (high-precision, Swiss big money stuff with cutom
bracket & mounted bourns 10K pot) were all removed and sold to:

AxMan Surplus
St.Paul, MN
612.646.8653

Call and ask for Barb or Am, tell them you want the little Swiss motor
thingy with the black aluminum bracket & blue pot that came from Ralph
and/or Bill at Atma-Sphere. If they can't find it, I probably can. Am will
know who I am.

How's THAT for a direct hit? Your cost should be about $20-25 ea; 1/10th of
what ASMS paid for these things. We're talkin' high precision, here.
Interested?

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