Thoughtless 7 Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 Would there be a difference if i say use a no-name brande 500k Pot which costs like £4/$9 instead of a well known 500k Pot which costs like £9/$19? Cos i have a tightish budget and i'm wondering if should should splash out and get the expensive pots and switches or get the lesser known cheaper ones? Whats your views? Thanks. Quote
jnewman Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 Would there be a difference if i say use a no-name brande 500k Pot which costs like £4/$9 instead of a well known 500k Pot which costs like £9/$19? Cos i have a tightish budget and i'm wondering if should should splash out and get the expensive pots and switches or get the lesser known cheaper ones? Whats your views? Thanks. ← As long as it's decently built, I wouldn't worry about it. Plenty of people use cheap pots in guitars - you're not really concerned with keeping the signal absolutely amazingly pure, you just don't want the thing to fall apart after you've been using it for a year. Quote
Thoughtless 7 Posted March 5, 2005 Author Report Posted March 5, 2005 Haha, thanks for the reply man. I think i'll get the cheaper pots, i mean if they were that bad they would of takin them off the market. Quote
lovekraft Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 FWIW, I use those "cheap" Alpha pots in everything but high-end pro audio equipment, and I've never had a complaint or a problem. They run me about $1.50 from Mouser, or about twice that if I've got to have something odd that Mouser doesn't carry. Even those CGE® pots shouldn't run more than $6.00 or so, or someone is taking advantage. Quote
rockthe40 Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 whoa $19 for a pot? thats outrageous.. if i were you i would buy the cheap ones too. and i thought replacing that stuff is supposed to be a cheap mod lol. i get the good CTS pots from guitarelectronics.com for $4 Quote
Kyle Cavanaugh Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 whoa $19 for a pot? thats outrageous.. ← +1 What you should be worried about is how dependable the pot is and if it has smooth rotation. Resistance is resistance, but it should have a good tolerance, +/-20% is the least acceptable, I recommend looking for at least +/- 10% if it's for a linear-taper (eg. Les Paul-type tone controls), it's acceptable for audio taper (eg. volume controls, Strat-type tone controls) because the resistance taper is exponential because doubling or dividing a voltage (the volume) in half (controled by the pot) will only make a difference of plus or minus 3 Decibels; that's why 1 Meg, 500K, and 250K pots don't sound terribly different in terms of volume, tone wise it might, especially on a tone control. Quote
donbenjy Posted March 5, 2005 Report Posted March 5, 2005 i got charged....wait for it......$25 for a concentric pot!!! Quote
lovekraft Posted March 6, 2005 Report Posted March 6, 2005 (edited) Dual concentrics are always going to be a lot more expensive, since they cost about three times as much to produce and only sell a small percentage of the the number that a standard pot does. It's simple economics of scale. Edited March 6, 2005 by lovekraft Quote
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