1941 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture Engineers 37 130 A special 3-circuit differential junction network, nicknamed ‘The Panpot’, is used to dub one original track onto one, any two, or all three of our Fantasound program tracks.

1964 H. B. Hadden Pract. Stereophony iii. 39 To present a monophonic signal, as a point source at a given position.., a control known as a ‘panoramic potentiometer’ is employed... This control, known as a ‘panpot’ for short, is a two-gang fader with the two halves arranged back to back, so that as the gain of one half of the particular channel is increased, the other half is decreased.

1986 Audiovision (Sydney) May 39/1 If a panpot is adjusted during recording, sounds can be made to move from one speaker to the other, an effect known as panning.

2002 Electronic Musician (Nexis) June 7 Fig. 20 shows our main delay section with a stereo panpot added.