[sdiy] Dual pot search....

[elmacaco]

I made a mixer panel with push pull pots, four channels with attenuator and
individual outs, the pull switch took each channel out of the main out in
case I just needed one attenuator.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Dual pot search....


> Michael,
> I jumped to the StewMac catalog, too! But their pots have the wrong
values,
> the wrong taper, and they are not cheap (as you said). Fun stuff to look
at,
> though. It's an interesting catalog because their are so many special
tools
> made just for luthiery. (Where else you gonna find Nut Files? But I
> digress...)
>
> On the subject of weird pots, Fender has a new one where the face of the
> knob is a pushbutton. An alternative to the push-pull pot, I believe that
> it's used on a certain new Strat. Alas, you have to use the Fender knob,
and
> it's even less cheap ;-) than the StewMac parts.
>
> I'm surprised that I've never seen a push-pull pot on a synth. Therefore,
> lots of synths must have them. Send those cards & letters!
> --
> john
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <WeAreAs1 at aol.com>
> >
> > --Does anyione know where to get these dual independent pots?  Cheap?
> > Surplus?  Etc? >>
> >
> > Hello Charlie,
> >
> > You might look at Stewart-Macdonald, the guitar maker's catalog
superstore
> (
> > <A HREF="http://www.stewmac.com/">http://www.stewmac.com/</A>).  They
have
> a
> > few dual concentric pots in their offerings.  Unfortunately, they don't
> have a
> > lot of values available -- just the ones that are typically useful in
> electric
> > guitars and basses (usually 250K and 500K, maybe one or two other
values).
> If
> > yoo're using the pots as simple voltage dividers, you can probably get
> away
> > with using just about any value of linear pot (from around 10K to 500K).
> If
> > you're using them as variable resistors, then you'll have to be more
> picky.
> > It's also possible to order dual concentric pots From Roland as spare
> parts for
> > BOSS pedals.  They have a lot of different values of dual pots in those
> pedals.
> >  Nice knobs that go with them, too.  Prices are not great, but
definitely
> > better than, say, buying one from Bourns or Spectrol.  Good luck.
> >
> > Michael Bacich
>


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