Does anyone use POT?

[killr_b]

Does anyone use POT for potentiometer when they're on set or at work on a mixer?

I just got into a huge argument with an audio guy about it. He said they are "slots" or "channels" if I like, but he'd never heard of POT?

I know I'm right, but I want to know if the other pro's here run into these unschooled audio peeps a lot.


Also, I know there is a thread of "best thread titles" and this is my toss in the hat.

 

[iMeowbot]

Thinking about it, just in general for electronics stuff, if I bother to identify them at all, I tend to call the twisty kind a pot, but the slidey kind a slider.

Even more often than that, I tend to call any mechanical or electrical/electronic device or component a "thingy" (with a few descriptive adjectives), just because.

 

[LethalWolfe]

My prof in college used pot, so I learned pot, but I think pot might be more of an old school term. It's also short for a technical term so if the audio guy didn't have any formal education I doubt he would have heard of pot/potentiometer. It's kinda like saying "intervolometer" vs "time lapse" one is more technical while the other is more laymen.


Lethal

 

[killr_b]

My prof in college used pot, so I learned pot, but I think pot might be more of an old school term. It's also short for a technical term so if the audio guy didn't have any formal education I doubt he would have heard of pot/potentiometer. It's kinda like saying "intervolometer" vs "time lapse" one is more technical while the other is more laymen.


Lethal

Okay, I can understand the easy to use vs. not so easy.

This guy was in front of the audio board and I said open pot 1.
I think he was mostly upset because he probably didn't have a formal education… and I made it obvious. Oops.
Good point.

 

[USMaC]

I tried it once, but I didn't inhale.

(Someone had to post it)

 

[kylos]

This reminds me of when my roommate came out of his room and announced dejectedly that he had smoked his pot. It turns out it was just a design fault in his project.

 

[ppc_michael]

This guy was in front of the audio board and I said open pot 1.

Absolutely nothing wrong with what you said. The guy must not know a whole lot. I can't believe he wouldn't have heard that before.

Everybody I work with knows pot (some actually even called it potentiometer), but they're all smart people.