VCA-1: Eliminating the "initial" pot.

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Hi Everyone!

So I wound up with a CEM3360 Dual VCA chip. Drilled a panel, laid the circuit out on a breadboard only to found out the chip was bad. (This may or may not have been me frying the chip. I can still use the bad chip excuse, though -- it's bad now!) So I figured hey, nice opportunity to build a couple VCA-1s, right?

Thing is, I hate to chuck the panel I already drilled... which does not account for "initial" level pots. BUT this was to be a dedicated final VCA. It will never see anything but a 0-10v envelope as a CV source.

So if that's the case, do I need the initial pot? Couldn't I just replace it with a trimmer... or eliminate it all together?

Thanks guys...

[Clack]

Trimmer would be best as you have to set it at the right point.

It just means you will have less options , and say if your cv is a little bit offset you can't quickly correct it.

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