EpiLP1985
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I have recently, after a very long hiatus, gotten back into playing guitar. My 4 year old son has prompted it with his excitement over some of the music I love, especially Zeppelin, ZZ Top, ABB, Rory Gallagher, etc. He has really taken to that style of music and it's been very fun watching how excited he is. We bought him a super budget brand guitar last Christmas, one of the little short scale ones with a built in speaker, and I took a peek over at GFS because I want to upgrade it a bit for better playability and sound.
I am used to the type of quality of product they have, i.e. I like their stuff for upgrading beater guitars and getting better tone out of them for a good price. When I used to play more often I had a little side thing where I was upgrading starter guitars with these components for people and for the most part the stuff is pretty middle of the road, tonewise.
I was looking for full size pots so I could add a tone control to my boy's guitar and came across these:
http://www.guitarfetish.com/XGP-Custom-Taper-Split-Shaft-Pot-A500K-Humbucker-Volume-Our-Best-_p_22992.html
Now I am used to the type of pot they sell at GFS: generic Alpha pots. These pots still look to be Alphas, but with brass shafts. They do however say "Custom Taper". That piqued my interest, as I am always interested in finding pots with vintage correct/desirable tapers. I decided that I would shoot an email over to their tech staff and see if I could get more information. I asked if they could provide a cut sheet for the pot that showed the taper ratio. The quick response back was that they didn't have that information at their disposal.
I pushed back a little bit due to the fact that they are marketing them as having a custom taper, and as such would have to have provided the manufacturer with a custom specification for production. I got another reply with more information. Evidently the "custom" actually refers to the brass shafts, bushings and carbon wipers. Interesting though, the standard ratio for the audio taper pots is 60:40.
I have a set of 250k pots coming for my son's guitar. I'll measure them and determine the actual taper when they get here.
I am used to the type of quality of product they have, i.e. I like their stuff for upgrading beater guitars and getting better tone out of them for a good price. When I used to play more often I had a little side thing where I was upgrading starter guitars with these components for people and for the most part the stuff is pretty middle of the road, tonewise.
I was looking for full size pots so I could add a tone control to my boy's guitar and came across these:
http://www.guitarfetish.com/XGP-Custom-Taper-Split-Shaft-Pot-A500K-Humbucker-Volume-Our-Best-_p_22992.html
Now I am used to the type of pot they sell at GFS: generic Alpha pots. These pots still look to be Alphas, but with brass shafts. They do however say "Custom Taper". That piqued my interest, as I am always interested in finding pots with vintage correct/desirable tapers. I decided that I would shoot an email over to their tech staff and see if I could get more information. I asked if they could provide a cut sheet for the pot that showed the taper ratio. The quick response back was that they didn't have that information at their disposal.
I pushed back a little bit due to the fact that they are marketing them as having a custom taper, and as such would have to have provided the manufacturer with a custom specification for production. I got another reply with more information. Evidently the "custom" actually refers to the brass shafts, bushings and carbon wipers. Interesting though, the standard ratio for the audio taper pots is 60:40.
I have a set of 250k pots coming for my son's guitar. I'll measure them and determine the actual taper when they get here.