oh man tearing my hair out........i want to upgrade my les paul and mules with some new pots and caps
been researching most of the day i have discovered that audio/log are best suited for tone and linear best for volume.
oh wait a mo,audio/log for vol and linear for tone........
whaddya say guys?
Was about to correct the first assertion about "linear best for volume", which is of course total nonsense (yet it's something you read on some online guitar parts shops, duh :().
Audio tapers (=> log) where invented specially for audio volume, since the human ear's response to air pressure level is actually a log curve. Using linear pots for volume, you'd have 50% of the volume drop in the first 10% or so of the pot's action, making it almost as useful as a mere on/off switch. Ok, perhaps a bit better, but not something you'd want IMHO.
FWIW, the average "log" pot being something like 60/40 (yeah, not THAT log indeed), it doesn't fully compensate the human ear's response curve. 70/30 or even 80/20 would be better, but good luck finding such a beast.
wrt/ tones, most audio devices use linear pots, but I've seen audio tone pots on quite a few guitars, including at least one of mines, and I'm not yet sure it makes such a difference here (I'd have to try out both solutions on the same pup of the same axe, but I really don't expect this to be more than a micro-optimization at best).
HTH
