linear .vs. log .vs. shunted pot

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I vote for banishing further thought about this. I am not particularly interested in shunt circuits other than the ESP shunt:

http://sound.westhost.com/project01.htm

 

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I have yet to read a similarly satisfying, dissenting opinion on the other shunt setup

I only need one word: "antilog".

If that doesn't do it for you, see the attached graph. Red is the Tomo log fake curve (linear pot), green is an approximation of a commercial log pot (y=(10^(ax))/b).

Using a log pot instead for the log fake curve (i.e. the Haller variation) wouldn't change the overall problem, and then you also get the problems of log pots: inferior tracking, low resolution at low volumes, expensive, etc.