I prefer my dials in base 16, my amp goes to F.
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Wonder what that'd look like to a layman. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9... Awesome? Beastly? Crushing? Deafening? Ear-shattering? Fuck that's loud?
Mineis also base 16 and goes to 10. Which one is louder?
Yours is one louder
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Just for the record... it has to do with practicality.
the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn't go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.
Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second
dammit.
missed an opportunity...
With the power of editing and bribery, we can all pretend you did it right the first go around.
so they stop at 11
you mean 10, most amps stop at 10.
At the 11 o'clock position, I think they mean. That's a bit arbitrary tho
Even the 11 clock position makes no sense, most amps will go from 8 to 4.
Edit, I see what they did. In the picture they used 7 to 5 o'clock as min/max, (which is essentially the same as my 8-4). For some reason they adapted the o'clock numbers to the dial number which is not helpful.
The o'clock numbers are meant to be a static reference point with 12 always at the top most position. You don't bend the clock scale to match the knob min/max.
That's not the history of that thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
I'm slightly sure that that page used to include the space shuttle main engines which famously went over 100%
Not going to check the page history
This is not at all the case.
Most potentiometers have a full rotation or 270°, sometimes up to 300°. By convention the mid-travel is at 12 o'clock. That would make the 0 around 7:30 and the 10 around 4:30.
Here's the original for higher quality
Relevant xkcd about these xkcd's:
I believe it's mandatory to add jpeg when linking to that comic.
If I can't find a well used vintage I'll weather it myself in the deep fryer. I don't do too much, but just a little touch goes a long way.
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The difference between engineering and sales engineering
I feel like the last one is a marketer, not a smart engineer.
Capitalist engineer.
Sales executive. Paid more than engineers, is substantially dumber.
Yeah but it’s where the real magic happens and the company would fall about without them because they’re irreplaceable.
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11 is one louder than 10!
No 11 is much less than 3,628,800
My peavey modeling amp was very proud that it went up to 13! :}
6227020800 is definitely higher than 11.
Ahhh. The vypyr.. I love everything about that stupid amp series.
For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?
The smart engineer then buys a stock amp for $1000, 3D prints a dial that goes to 12, installs it, delivers it to Spïnäl Täp (I can never remember where the umlaut goes), and pockets his well-earned profit.
Some Peavey amps do go to 12
Yup anyone who as umlaut to an n will buy anything for "cool factor"
This comment is like a New York Times daily game "which word is the typo?"
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Eh my amps scale is from 0 to 32 bit intiger limit. (it's just as loud as the ones that go from 0 to 11)
40 years ago someone made a joke
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