gregmac

Maybe it would be better to have a slightly stronger motor and also have a second pot connected to the same motor with the same range of movement as the typical amp pot for feedback. Maybe with a stepper motor it would be easier to control precisely the number of degrees of movement?

Yes a lot of Newtons is right. Actually I won't really need to know what setting it is on (though it would be helpful) as the idea is to be listening from a seperate room through microphones, as to what the best sound is. Once the sound is arrived at, one can go and look at the settings and make a note. I guess recallable settings would be good though and knowing what the setting is might avoid confusion. On the other hand not knowing the setting might lead to better results as one could only rely on the ear. Further it would be possible to tell when the controll had reached either extreme and I guess one could get a feel pretty quickly for the range of the particular control. cheers Greg

Thanks for the reply. The idea I have is not to modify an existing amp but to make a device that can attatch to the front or top of any amp, then be removed and attastched to a different amp, any amp. So basically just need midi contolled motors not pots. The drive would be provided by temporarily conecting the motors, which would be mounted on some type of frame, to the pot knobs on the outside of the amp. Or were you sugesting to use the motorpot as a motor as a way of providing the feedback to the circuit? cheers Greg I guess for that mater I could just use a digital switch that turned the motor on and off and provide some sort of clutch so as it didn't over torque the motor at either end. Perhaps an adjustable stop so the pot didn't get stressed out. cheers Greg

Hi Thorsten and other midi boxers. Not sure if this is the place to ask, I have a query. I want to build a device that can be mounted on the front of a guitar amp with a number of motors that can somehow attatch to the knobs to remote control them. It would be used in a studio environment to adjust tone and gain etc from the control room. I'm thinking if I build the fader module and hook up some small motors they could be used for that. Will the fader module work to drive motors that are not connected to faders and no feedback? If this was possible what type of motors would I need? best regards to Thorsten Greg Macmillan P.S. it's been a long time since I've been here. I still have my original midi box 64 but it got serverly blackened in a bushfire here in Australia.