This is a question about the potentiometer of Dave Mustaine LiveWire.

[songbird]

Hello forum.

This is a question about the potentiometer of Dave Mustaine LiveWire.


I bought this pickup this time, but there is only the pickup body, and the rest of the parts are missing. (Potentiometer, capacitor, etc.)

When working with 1 volume and 1 tone, if you look at Duncan's wiring table




You can see that two 100k pots and a 0.047uf capacitor go into the tone.

You can get a 100k potentiometer or a 0.047 capacitor.


I am curious about the curve of the potentiometer.

Generally, the volume pot is known as the B curve and the tone pot as the A curve.


In the materials I looked for, I also saw a story that both active pickups should use an A-curve.

Which information is accurate?

 

[Wound_Up]

Unless it's different for active pickups, you've got it backwards. Volume pots are usually A taper. Tone pots are usually B taper.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Either style will work, but their functionality will be different. It’s interesting they use 100k pots. Most other actives use 25k.

 

[Artie]

And to make matters worse, they switched the designations. (I think in the 70's or 80's.) "A" used to be linear and "B" was log. Then they figured out that it would be nice if "A" stood for "audio". So now "A" is log and "B" is linear.

 

[jeremy]

you want 100k pots but the taper is preference. i tend to like linear pots for both controls on some guitars but on single coil strats, i prefer a modified audio taper