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Pan Pot (noun)
Type: noun
Pronunciation: /pan-pot/
Also spelled or known as: Pan-Pot, Panpot
What does Pan Pot mean?
A control knob used to pan sounds left or right.
Pan Pot is short for “Panoramic Potentiometer,” a Pan Pot is a knob in the channel strip used to control the panning of the audio signal in the stereo to the left speaker, the right speaker, or somewhere in between.
Example sentence: “I’m using the pan pot to fix it.”
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