I never told anyone about how I got bullied in middle and highschool . Why ? Because I just wanted to be left alone . Imagine how much attention , and how much attention I would have gotten if I went and told teachers or administration about it ? That seemed worse than just putting up with it , staying as invisible as possible , and not reacting . This , of course , was part of why I got bullied , but it was just a matter of getting through school so I could go home and spend time with people I liked and do things I enjoyed . <| sep |> Are you sure that pulling the left and right channels together on the AIN net is your intent ? Why not preserve them through the amplification ? Second , this is a volatile digital potentiometer meaning that you will need to reinitialize it on power up every time you use it , it won ' t store it ' s previous state which might be a behavior you want . Third is it ' s a potentiometer , if you try to drive something with the output it won ' t work , you need some opamp buffers .