>Stonedeaf...NOT Linear taper. It should be Audio taper, but these are so hard to find that Log taper is usually substituted. Characteristic of the original pot could be determined using an ohmeter once you get the thing out of the circuit.
Sometimes a shunted linear pot is used to approximate a log pot.
Cheap "log" pots are actually multiple linear segments and if used in a ganged stereo application you're likely to have problems where the segments line up between pots. So the shunted approximation makes more sense in that case.
Sometimes a shunted linear pot is used to approximate a log pot.
Cheap "log" pots are actually multiple linear segments and if used in a ganged stereo application you're likely to have problems where the segments line up between pots. So the shunted approximation makes more sense in that case.