Replacement Volume pot on a bass

dchwhite

I have tried searching the forum I promise... I need to replace a volume pot on a friend's bass. The current (broken) one is a 500k linear pot - I can see lots of advice on the forum suggesting a log pot for guitar volume - would you also use log for bass, please? Thanks

ICBM

I would usually use a Linear for a bass volume pot. Log gives a better clean-up from an overdriven sound, but can have too drastic a volume drop from full to not-quite-full with a clean sound; Linear gives a smoother rate of clean volume change.

dchwhite

^ much appreciated @icbm & thank you - linear it is , then. Cheers

Andyjr1515

ICBM said:

I would usually use a Linear for a bass volume pot. Log gives a better clean-up from an overdriven sound, but can have too drastic a volume drop from full to not-quite-full with a clean sound; Linear gives a smoother rate of clean volume change.

Wise and informative words. Hadn't really considered that...excellent tip, @ICBM