[sdiy] Mixer pots (was: The annual I/O impedance/protection thread! (revised))

[Neil Johnson]

Hi,

I wrote:
> Its something I'm working on:
>
> http://www.milton.arachsys.com/nj71/index.php?menu=2&submenu=2&subsubmenu=4

Harry wrote:
> I just read the draft of your paper. Did you know that this configuration
> (minus the opamp) is common in electric guitar ...

[...snip...]

> backward thinking. brilliant !

Looking at the Mackie 1604VLZ mixer schematics I see they use this
approach too for the AUX send pots, and looks like they use pot
bending with weird 'G'-law pots so they get audio taper with the low
5k1 bus resistors.

Just goes to show, nothing's as new as you think!

Cheers,
Neil
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