This seems to be a common complaint with these amps, the Clean channel Volume control (as well as the dirty channel master volume) seem to have a very abrupt action between about 1 - 2, with very low volume at 1 and pretty much full volume at 2, making it difficult to dial in the right volume for a given situation. I've spent a couple of hours searching the net for a mod to correct this, and haven't found anything of any value yet, I was wondering if anyone around here has come up with anything?
Most things I've found on the net center around a claim that Fender used linear taper pots on the volume control, and that a change to an audio taper will correct the problem, but the schematic I have shows a 250k audio taper pot for the clean channel Volume, so I'm not sure why everyone seems to think it's a linear pot. Maybe someone posted it was once on a forum and everyone has been repeating that ever since, I don't know. In any case, looking at the schematic there doesn't seem to be any logical reason for the abrupt action of the pot, 250k audio pot should give a nice gradual and controllable increase in volume.
In any case, anyone have any experience with this they'd share, it would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Hasse
Most things I've found on the net center around a claim that Fender used linear taper pots on the volume control, and that a change to an audio taper will correct the problem, but the schematic I have shows a 250k audio taper pot for the clean channel Volume, so I'm not sure why everyone seems to think it's a linear pot. Maybe someone posted it was once on a forum and everyone has been repeating that ever since, I don't know. In any case, looking at the schematic there doesn't seem to be any logical reason for the abrupt action of the pot, 250k audio pot should give a nice gradual and controllable increase in volume.
In any case, anyone have any experience with this they'd share, it would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Hasse
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