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Subject: Re: [motm] Re: tweaking the 410

From: mark@...
Date: 2001-12-19

At 9:26 PM +0100 12/18/01, jhaible@... wrote:
>
>> That's what I said. Besides, if the vactrols have a 20% tolerance, and
>> the pots have a 10% tolerance, it could add up to a significant
>> difference.
>
>Nit picking here, the pot's tolerance will only have a minor influence.
>(They are used as variable dividers, not as rheostats.)

Are you saying the that the difference is spread evenly across the
resistive element?? Yes, then it wouldn't matter for a voltage divider.
I'm no materials engineer, but I'm thinking if they could do that, they
could make them better than 10%. Then again, I could be wrong.

>> God invented the vactrol?? ;)
>
>He he, God invented man, and man invented vactrols (;->).

So the Three Wise Men weren't Bob, Tom, and Harold?? :)

>Sorry if anything from my mails sounded pompous -

Oh, you'd have to stand in line to sound pompous on this list :)

>I just wanted to say that it's all a direct consequence of using Vactrols,
>and the filter would not be what it is, without them.

Well, thank God/Korg/Schreiber for that!! I love the 410. I'm thinking it
would be popular even as a stand-alone product.