Volume pot? Where in Auckland?

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Volume pot? Where in Auckland?

Post by Kiwiaxe »

Broke my damn volume pot on my Vigier. It says its a 500k, although interestingly apparently newer Vigiers now use 1M.

1. Best quality pot? (I'm guessing its still CTS?)
2. Where might I find one to buy in Auckland on a Saturday? Otherwise, I guess I'll have to order one in from guitarparts and do it next week.

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The rockshop or music planet?
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Post by Single coil »

They tend to carry dimarzio pots, 500k/1m.
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Post by Mattallica »

In store will probably be dimarzio from rockshop. I've had a few Seymour duncan ones from musicplanet and they've been dry/squeaky out of the box.

If you order one next week, I think Tonelounge still have emerson pots? Much more economical than buying from guitarparts

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Thanks for the comments all - are Dimarzio pots any good? I can just pop in to local Rockshop and get one but I didn't know if they are as good as other options

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Google is telling me that dimarzio pots are rebranded CTS. Makes sense to me. I bought a couple of long shaft ones a while back and they felt quality, looked similar etc

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We do our own pots now. Ordered direct from CTS in insane quantities for our Obsidian products.

Dimarzio and Emerson pots are also CTS.

Seymour Duncan pots are lower grade Bourns I believe.

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Bourns are the best aftermarket pots I've used. Pricey though.

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Post by sizzlingbadger »

The Dimarzio spec'd CTS pots are nice, they have a "low torque" action, nice and easy/smooth to turn.
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Can vouch for the tonelounge CTS pots.

Quality, good price and free shipping, no min order like guitarparts, would purchase again.

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Post by handsoffmatt »

The DiMarzio pots are CTS, but not a simple rebrand. They are built to DiMarzio's specific taper spec. They are great and regularly in stock at Rockshop.
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Got a dimarzio 1M from the Rockshop (Vigier apparently now recommends 1M). Installed it this morning. I don’t even appear to have fucked it up! Rocking away on it again.

The Vigier is my only Floyd guitar and it can be rather fun!

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