trouble with pots

andrezp · Joined: May 11, 2008 Posts: 5 Location: brazil

hey everyone.
My name's Andre, and I'm from Brazil. I'm new on the forum and I'm new on circuit-bending. I've just started to make my 2nd circuit-bending (using a yamaha PSS-190, that old tiny one). I've found some great glitches on that, but trouble is none of the pots I try seem to work fine on them. I've tried from 5k to 1M (I didn't try, actually, one 5M pot, because they're so hard to find here). With some of the pots, when I turn them all the way clockwise, it "triggers" the sound. But by just turning it anti-clockwise, just a little bit, it completely mutes the sound. Does anyone have an idea what should it be?

Thanks in advance!

Inventor · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:28 am Post subject:

Hi colortv and welcome to electro-music.com! Are you sure you wired the pots correctly? If you wire one end correctly, but swap the other two terminals, then you might get the behavior you described. Just a guess on my part, but that's something to check. Good luck and have fun!

stolenfat · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject:

some times, pots just wont work at all, you might be better off with body contacts or switches.

Try adding some resistance between the connection and the pot. Some times the pots will work fine untill you move them to far and it will crash the thing.

Try researching trim pots to more accurately tune your pots so this doesnt happen