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Your hearing's sensitivity to loudness is logarithmic so you can hear a pin drop but also hear something that is extremely loud.

The linear potentiometer is not a logarithmic volume control. If you turn it down from max to half then the audio level will be reduced only a little, but a log volume control will turn down the audio level quite a lot. If you turn up the linear pot from minimum to just a little higher then the audio level will suddenly turn on fairly high, but a log volume control will turn on the sound level only a little.
 

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Your hearing's sensitivity to loudness is logarithmic so you can hear a pin drop but also hear something that is extremely loud.

The linear potentiometer is not a logarithmic volume control. If you turn it down from max to half then the audio level will be reduced only a little, but a log volume control will turn down the audio level quite a lot. If you turn up the linear pot from minimum to just a little higher then the audio level will suddenly turn on fairly high, but a log volume control will turn on the sound level only a little.

Why don't they install log pots on guitars? I've always wondered why that was the case with volume pots...
 

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Aren't electric geetars played at full blast with tons of overdrive distortion? They never turn down the level (they like the awful fuzz sounds).

The input of the amplifier has a log volume control.
 

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Aren't electric geetars played at full blast with tons of overdrive distortion? They never turn down the level (they like the awful fuzz sounds).

depends on the music style ;)
 
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