In-between pot values?

[Rex_Rocker]

Which of these exist?

I know the standards are 250K, 500K, and 1Meg, right?

I know there are some odd Gibson 300K pots. But are there 750K pots? 666K? Anything like that?

Thanks!

 

[Clint 55]

The only thing I've seen easy to find are 550k. However, get crafty with the search bar and you can find some odd stuff. I typed in 750k potentiometer in the search bar and got some weird looking ones that might work. Just faf with the search bar, if you go to individual sites, often nothing will come up.

 

[jeremy]

mouser would be the place id start looking

 

[Chistopher]

There are other ways to simulate different parts values than having to buy obscure parts. Throwing resistors in there can do the same thing, but also adjust your pot tapers if you aren't careful.

 

[Mincer]

If you can measure the resistance, you can find some 500k pots with a wide tolerance, and use a pot on the edges of the tolerance.

 

[JOLLY]

There are 375k pots, which to me, on paper, seem like they would be perfect.

 

[marcello252]

unless the odd values are labeled 'for guitar' I doubt that kind of pots would be suitable for us, since they are made for particular purpose, I don't think for example the stiffness of the pot tree is usable for guitar.

Anyway, I also doubt you could actually hear real differences, remember that in electronics there are declared tolerances, on pots these tolerances are particularly wide, in the order of 10% or more, so a 250K could be at least anywhere from 225 to 275 overlapping a 300K pot tolerance....

​​​in case you want to try a particular different value, use a resistor across the outer lugs of a higher value pot, as I just wrote in another post here, the equivalent R is R[SUB]eq[/SUB] = (R[SUB]1[/SUB]R[SUB]2[/SUB])/(R[SUB]1[/SUB] + R[SUB]2[/SUB])​

 

[ehdwuld]

You can add a resistor to any pot to change its value

 

[jeremy]

yes, but then the taper sucks. if you only play with the volume full up or off, then that doesnt matter though.

 

[Chistopher]

A linear pot with a resistor across can get close to a logarithmic taper.