Another Word For Linear?

Mar 30, 2017 33 Replies

My not so technical customers will surely ask: "Inverse? Are you suggesting that I try standing on my head to invert my ears, while smoking pot, to fix the linearity? I dunno about dat."

Drop your IQ and shrink your vocabulary a few notches and maybe they'll understand. Also, 4 syllable words, like "approximation", do not compute with the GUM (great unwashed masses). This thing requires short words with few syllables and very simple thoughts.

Maybe something like this: Y'er brain and ears are mush from too much grunge, punk, heavy metal, trance, and gothic rock. They are no longer in tune wit da tronics. I ain't gonna fix your ears, but I kin tweak da controls to make your brain think it sounds good, without the pot or other drugs.

I am the wizard of sound. The problem I've already found. With speakers you sit, so eardrums will split, and rhythm you brutally pound.

What you need is a better pot. The knob, the drug it is not. Get out your check book, and I'll take a look, and do try to thank me a lot.

(Hint: I only write poetry when I'm angry, irate, frustrated, irritated, disgusted, etc.)

Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

** This is a very poor explanation, ears are not "non-linear".

The simple reason is that a linear pot does not permit adjustment of level over a wide enough range to do the job.

For domestic hi-fi audio, that range is about 60dB or 1000:1 in level.

Only a non-linear pot can do so by employing a varying track resistance along its length.

.... Phil

The new control will cause the volume change to vary linearly with the change in the knob's rotation? John Fields

Just tell him that it'll fix the amp so it'll go to eleven, again.

You want a Volume control, not a Voltage control..."

Never piss off an Engineer! They don't get mad. They don't get even. They go for over unity! ;-)

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