[sdiy] backwards pots. Whats the deal?

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Very nice, Neil. It's always good to see an idea written up well in a paper, with circuit diagrams, even if it turns out to be an "old" idea.

Brian


On Apr 1, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> mark verbos wrote:
>> I have noticed on some mixer circuits that the pots seem to be wired backwards from a conventional voltage divider. i.e. signal into the wiper and out of the CW end. What is the point of this? Should the pot still be an audio taper?
> 
> I wrote up some notes on this exact issue some time ago:
> 
> http://www.milton.arachsys.com/nj71/index.php?menu=2&submenu=2&subsubmenu=4