2M pots!?

[line6man]

I just came across these.
http://www.torresengineering.com/2megpot.html

This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen! Why are they selling them? :icon_scratch:

Does anyone even make pickups with a high enough output impedance to justify such a high resistance pot to control them? If so, why not buffer them? :icon_scratch:
For a regular guitar pickup, I would have to imagine a resistance this high would first off, be exactly the same as a 1M pot at the maximum setting, because 1M pots are already esentially bypassed from the circuit at their maximum setting, given the signal impedance, and second, pretty much just act like an on/off switch. You won't get down into a resistance range appropriate for the signal impedance until you are nearly all the way down, then the volume will suddenly drop, or the tone will suddenly cut all the treble.

The only way such a pot would make sense in a guitar is if you were running like three or four volume pots in parallel, with no pickup selector switch, to drop the resistance.

Are people really dumb enough to buy these!?

 

[AutoBat]

I have 1meg pots in my strat, and they certainly aren't perfect. (they came with the pups)
volume 0-3 is essentially off, 3 kicks in quite abruptly with the volume increasing slightly from 3-8.5, then jumps to full output 9-10.

2megs would probably be twice as bad.

I know I should change to 500 pots, but 1) I'm cheap, 2) I'm lazy
(pups are Fender Vintage Noiseless (1st gen))

 

[line6man]

I have 1meg pots in my strat, and they certainly aren't perfect. (they came with the pups)
volume 0-3 is essentially off, 3 kicks in quite abruptly with the volume increasing slightly from 3-8.5, then jumps to full output 9-10.

2megs would probably be twice as bad.

I know I should change to 500 pots, but 1) I'm cheap, 2) I'm lazy
(pups are Fender Vintage Noiseless (1st gen))

Yes, even 1M pots are often too high for the signal impedance, so they act like on/off switches. WHY would anyone want 2M pots? :tard:

FWIW, if you are too cheap and lazy to swap pots, try soldering a 1M resistor across the outer terminals of the volume pot, and a 1M resistor across the two terminals used on the tone pot. The taper may not be perfect, but it will bring the resistance down to 500k for a few cents worth of resistors and 5 minutes of work.

 

[iamdavidmorris]

It's about demand.  Some people swear 1M pots is the key to great tone.  Ridiculous or not, I imagine there are people that think if 1M is good, 2M has to be twice as good.  In other words (as you well know), it's not about what's useful.  It's about what people will spend their money on.

 

[line6man]

It's about demand.  Some people swear 1M pots is the key to great tone.  Ridiculous or not, I imagine there are people that think if 1M is good, 2M has to be twice as good.  In other words (as you well know), it's not about what's useful.  It's about what people will spend their money on.

Well, obviously they sell these because people buy them, but shit, who is buying these, to the point that they can keep them regularly stocked?
Do they let you return them when you find out they don't quite match their deceptive description, and you find out they are worthless?

 

[iamdavidmorris]

Well, obviously they sell these because people buy them, but shite, who is buying these, to the point that they can keep them regularly stocked?
Do they let you return them when you find out they don't quite match their deceptive description, and you find out they are worthless?

It's Torres Engineering.  From what I heard of them, I think the answer would be no.