Guitar Volume pots; linear vs audio

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I’ve researched this and there is practically no consensus on which format delivers gradual sweeps vs something closer to an on/off taper.

Years ago I had a custom Baker B1 guitar whose bridge volume pot was literally like an on/off control. Obviously not good for in between tones but on the flip side it allowed for extremely dramatic volume swells when playing through high gain amps. I’d like to revisit that so which taper does this?
 
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For guitar volume pots, linear taper does the on/off thing. Audio taper sounds more gradual.

You'd think it would be the opposite but guitar amps are compressed enough that any real signal fed to them at all will get you into loud preamp territory, so audio taper gives you the finest degree of control in the "barely on" regions, and translated to the compression of a guitar amps, it almost sounds linear.

Linear taper pots blast you straight into the "close enough to full up" volumes fast enough that it makes them behave closer to on/off switches.
 
I use evh low friction. Dont judge me..custom shop put in the wrong style of pot for me to use my normal seymour duncan low friction..point is, i can make it go fast or gradual with the low friction thing. I cannot stand slow pots on a guitar
 
TheGreatGreen said:
For guitar volume pots, linear taper does the on/off thing. Audio taper sounds more gradual.

You'd think it would be the opposite but guitar amps are compressed enough that any real signal fed to them at all will get you into loud preamp territory, so audio taper gives you the finest degree of control in the "barely on" regions, and translated to the compression of a guitar amps, it almost sounds linear.

Linear taper pots blast you straight into the "close enough to full up" volumes fast enough that it makes them behave closer to on/off switches.
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This.

I also find the opposite is true for tone pots. Linear taper seems to be more gradual for tone.

My personal preference is to use audio taper for volume and linear taper for tone.
 
I prefer audio for volume

I never actually use the tone pot so idk what to use, but common wisdom is audio for volume, linear for tone
 
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