Timeline for What are the meanings of pan(ning) and pan pot?
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| Sep 9, 2015 at 3:03 | comment | added | Andrew Cheong | And here I thought the Berlin techno duo Pan-Pot was just choosing extremely common kitchen apparatuses as their name to symbolize the minimalism of their style... | |
| Jun 30, 2015 at 9:08 | comment | added | Bit Depth | Potential refers to a voltage. A potentiometer is a device that acts as a variable voltage divider - proportionally dividing a voltage based on two resistors in series. In a potentiometer the two resistances are proportion to the position set on the potentiometer so that the output voltage can swing fully between the supply voltage and ground. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 20:39 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | "Potentiometer" originally meant specifically a variable resistor and I suspect that comes from being able to measure electric potential by adjusting a variable resistance to match a predetermined voltage or current point and using math to calculate the potential based on the resistance. Now "pot" pretty much means any knob; digital, analog, or whatever. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 20:35 | history | edited | Todd Wilcox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 29, 2015 at 20:30 | history | answered | Todd Wilcox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |