Crossfader Schematic Help?

Hello guys,

I am trying to mod my Technics Crossfader. I have got it working to an extent but it fails when I put electricity and audio through it.

I am trying to keep it as a normal audio fader but to use it as an analogue potentiometer that runs into an aurduino board, then pure data and then via midi to Virtual DJ. I have all the software parts done and as I said it works perfectly when there is no audio running through it. If anyone wants to know how to do this then I can let you know. No problems.

So my problem is that I do not understand how the schematics of the fader works out. On a normal potentiometer I connect the ground to 1, the analogue input to 2 and the 5v output to 3.

What worked without the audio was as the image looks
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. Ground . 5 Volts
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. Analogue Input .

Can anyone tell me what should be connected to what as I have very little electronics and arduino experience and don't understand where any of these circuits are going.
Thanks

can you take a pic of the other side also
that would help

The other side looks like the top of a slide pot.
The circuit board is soldered to the pot so I don't want to mess with that.

Another forum claims that I would need a separate pot for the audio and another for the analogue input. If anyone knows better and how to do it then please let me know.
Thanks

You will need separate pots for audio and for the 5V DC that connects to the Arduino. Now, if your pot is stereo, than it'll have two tracks, both of them in use for audio. If that's correct, then you'll need a three-track pot, which I don't think will be available.

Thanks fir the bad news
Appreciated.
ahhh well
:slight_smile: