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What is a good place for a volume control knob?
ahofle:
As mentioned by Artifact, you can omit an additional control and just use your arcade controls (spinner, trackball, buttons, etc) to control the volume with this little application:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69901.0
Zebidee:
If you also have a volume control on your amp, inside the cab, then you can set and effective "maximum" volume on this, That was your players can change the volume themselves without turning the neighbourhood into a warzone.
Just make sure you put the volume pot on the line from your PC to the amp. That way you are effectively controlling master volume with the external pot. But you can still provide an ffective limit this with the amp volume control.
oqqalz:
I put mine between my speakers as well and used a black appliance knob from Ace Hardware. I rarely even notice it there.
You can also use some software to control the OS volume, then map it to some shifted keys. However, in my case, I just hacked a T-Amp and converted its volume control to a long stem so that I put a knob on it.
DaOld Man:
--- Quote from: ahofle on October 11, 2007, 11:56:28 am ---As mentioned by Artifact, you can omit an additional control and just use your arcade controls (spinner, trackball, buttons, etc) to control the volume with this little application:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69901.0
--- End quote ---
Thats a neat little app there ahofle!
I may have to use it on my next project..
DaOld Man:
--- Quote from: oqqalz on October 11, 2007, 12:06:39 pm ---I put mine between my speakers as well and used a black appliance knob from Ace Hardware. I rarely even notice it there.
You can also use some software to control the OS volume, then map it to some shifted keys. However, in my case, I just hacked a T-Amp and converted its volume control to a long stem so that I put a knob on it.
--- End quote ---
Thats basically the way I did mine, except I unsoldered the pot from the board, added some extension wires to it, then I routed out the MDF for the pot to sit down inside it, no need for the extension handle.
I like where it is, but I could see a problem with short kids not being able to reach the volume knob..
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