Volume pot ?

[dcburn mk.ii]

After commenting how like Chugg, I dont like to run boost or OD pedals, I like the tone and breakup of the amp.
However, I feel like there is more useable gain in my JTM45, but by six on the amp volume, guitar volume pot at ten is noisy. Turn a cut hair off of ten and the noisy goes away and its pretty great.
In my mind though, I feel as ten should be wide open and glorious!
Id like a little more power tube break up.

So just wondering, do I have a wonky pot or is this how it works?
Turning the volume knob on the amp to 7 or so and you can hear it get beefier and more powerful, but the guitar volume pot noise where I think I am in overdrive (10) is noisy.

Is this normal?
Should I just keep the guitar volume off of ten?
I like ripping around 6 or 7 on the guitar and OD is the rest of the pot.

I guess this is more of a pot question rather than a volume/tone question...

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

You could try a linear taper pot.
Supposedly logarithmic/audio taper (usually 3 actual volumes 1-3 being the same 33%, 4-6 being the same 66%, 7-9/10 being the same 100% vs the 10 different notches on the knob) are used as these are points where the human ear detects volume changes, but linear taper will have 10 actual volumes
(1=10% volume 2 = 20% 3 =30% ect... until 10, so you may be able to push it higher but sounds like it's maxed out, anyways? Loss of quick volume swell control with linear taper, though. Could just be a bit dirty/needing replaced.

 

[dcburn mk.ii]

You could try a linear taper pot.
Supposedly logarithmic/audio taper (usually 3 actual volumes 1-3 being the same 33%, 4-6 being the same 66%, 7-9/10 being the same 100% vs the 10 different notches on the knob) are used as these are points where the human ear detects volume changes, but linear taper will have 10 actual volumes
(1=10% volume 2 = 20% 3 =30% ect... until 10, so you may be able to push it higher but sounds like it's maxed out, anyways? Loss of quick volume swell control with linear taper, though. Could just be a bit dirty/needing replaced.

Thank you.
I was thinking the actual opposite and too lazy to giggle search!

At first I was thinking bad pot, I had just purchased the guitar used, its a year old.
When I first received it, the pot was actually worse off, now the noise is really only at 9.5-10.

 

[njshred]

Bypass the pot entirely to confirm.

 

[dcburn mk.ii]

Bypass the pot entirely to confirm.

Should have thought of that!

 

[thegame]

You could try a linear taper pot.
Supposedly logarithmic/audio taper (usually 3 actual volumes 1-3 being the same 33%, 4-6 being the same 66%, 7-9/10 being the same 100% vs the 10 different notches on the knob) are used as these are points where the human ear detects volume changes, but linear taper will have 10 actual volumes
(1=10% volume 2 = 20% 3 =30% ect... until 10, so you may be able to push it higher but sounds like it's maxed out, anyways? Loss of quick volume swell control with linear taper, though. Could just be a bit dirty/needing replaced.

Thank you.
I was thinking the actual opposite and too lazy to giggle search!

At first I was thinking bad pot, I had just purchased the guitar used, its a year old.
When I first received it, the pot was actually worse off, now the noise is really only at 9.5-10.

I think that's backwards:

Thread 'Guitar Volume pots; linear vs audio'

Oct 20, 2024

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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[glpg80]

I have 3 vintage LPCs that I put linear taper bourns low friction pots in because the OEM are linear pots and it’s period correct. They’re very much off/on and you have to volume roll 90% to get a rolled back tone. That’s how originals are though. I couldn’t make myself put all audio taper pots in although I’m considering it.