Push / Pull Pots

[Hekim]

I have a simple (aka stupid) question about push/pull pots where a single pot is used for both volume and tone. Let's say the down postion is volume and up postion is tone. When the pot is pulled out to adjust tone does the volume stay at the previous setting? After adjusting tone and pushing the pot back down does the tone setting remain as set?

[cc9cii]

No. And No. There was a recent thread by Deaf Eddie with a better explanation, see here.

[thejerk]

Your best bet if you want 1 pot with two knob settings is concentric pots!

With the setup you describe, you can only have volume OR tone. Once the switch is in one position, the other is wide open. So if you go to adjust tone... volume shoots up to max, and vice versa.

[Hekim]

Thanks for the replies. Thats kind of what I though but I recieved an email from StewMac that implies it would work. I was aware of the concentric pots like those used on Dano's but they are just so butt ugly IMO.