Bourns Pots Vs Cts

Alpha seem to be more consistent than cts.

Bourns pots vs cts. Post by jonny w mon nov 24 2014 7 54 pm i ve used bourns hrt high torque pots on all my builds so far and really like them. Page 2 of 2 prev 1 2. We range bourns cts alpha fender and marshall in a variety of styles and values. So using this chart as a reference you can see that the taper is very similar from volume levels 4 and lower but very different from 9 5.

I m looking mostly at standard pots not push pull but welcome opinions on all. A wide variety of pots are available for your project including pots logarithmic and linear solid shaft for amps knurled split shaft for some amps and guitars mini pots for both guitars and amps dual or stacked switchable push pull mini dual bias reverse. Came across these prewired kits on ebay noticed the builder uses bourns pots over cts claims they re better but i seldom see complaints about cts pots. For the last year i ve been getting my cts from wd as they have 550k 275k pots meaning when you order 500k your pot measures at least 500k ditto 250k pots vs.

Regular cts that always seem to have a mean about 10 lower than the rated value. However for my upcoming mfos sequencer project i need 30 pots and the alphas are less than half the price of the bourns. Bourns vs cts pots discussion in tele technical started by wilburbufferson aug 11 2020. None of the above are great but bourns are awful.

Builders how do you feel about cts vs. This means no exceptionally low or high resistance pots that can be found when using typical 20 tolerance 500k pots or even 500k pots at 10 tolerance. Bourns vs alpha pots. Bourns vs cts taper.

I know the cork sniffers all say the cts is best but i ve bought a number of the boutique cts pots and frankly wasn t impressed. Cts or bourns 500k pots are typically used with gibson les paul s r prs or other humbucker equipped guitars. We re very pleased with these pots and think you will be too. Aug 22 2020 at 3 36 pm 21.

I ve been thinking about upgrading the wiring in my 56 with cts pots and a switchcraft switch. Not sure what the right pot should be with p 90s 500k. Cts has a decrease from each level of around 5 and bourns has a slower rate of around 2. May 29 2020 location.

Bourns v s alpha pots.