All, I posted this at DIYMA, and didn't get too may helpful responses, so figured I'd ask the Hive Mind. Back in the '90s, I used to set amp gains by turning the level pot all the way up and then ...
A short while back, I published a design idea that uses a single linear pot to control the gain of a high performance OP37 decompensated op-amp over an unusually wide (-30 dB to +60 dB) range. Figure ...