It sounds like the built-in pot model you are using in your circuit simulator only lets you set the pot position once on the schematic, and then the position is constant during the simulation.
The Potentiometer Model at eCircuit
shows how to build a model that acts like a linear pot that turns during the simulation.
That's exactly what you need, right?
That model has a spice file that uses a piecewise linear source (PWL) that controls the position of the pot vs. time.
* WIPER POSITION: 0V=CCW, 1V=CW
VPOS 20 0 PWL(0MS 0V 1000MS 1V)
You could either use the "voltage" of VPOS as the X coordinate on your graph, representing pot position;
or perhaps it's simpler to plot X as time and pick a PWL that linearly turns the pot proportional to time.
Then you run the simulation, and plot output voltage vs. time.
Perhaps pipe in a square-wave at some audio frequency, and plot the output voltage vs time; then when viewing several seconds of simulation, you'll see a solid mass (the oscillations are too fast too see, more than 1 cycle per pixel width) that shows the envelope of the output waveform, and you can use either the top or the bottom as an estimate of the gain.
To simulate a non-linear pot, you could (a) edit the PWL line to turn the pot at a non-linear rate, but plot X as time, something like:
* nonlinear turn
VPOS 20 0 EXP(TIME)
VPOS 20 0 LOG10(TIME)
Or you could (b) build a model of a non-linear pot, and keep the PWL turning that pot at a linear rate, using something like
EPOS 21 0 TABLE{V(20,0)} = (0 0.7) (1 7.0) (2 700) (3 7k) (4 70k)
Both (a) and (b) give the same resistance-vs-time characteristics, right?
Hopefully you can find some function or polynomial or a set of points to feed into PWL or TABLE that gives a close-enough approximation to the actual resistance of your real-world nonlinear pot.
I'm assuming you already have software tools that let you draw a circuit schematic and simulate it, that also accept SPICE models.
If not, I'm pretty sure there is something suitable in the
List of free electronics circuit simulators.
EDIT:
Or at the Chiphacker list of freeware SPICE simulators.
To plot AC signal gain as a function of pot position,
first run a transient (time) simulation.
Then plot the output (the voltage on the wire going to the speaker) vs. time.
(Or you could plot it vs. the "turn signal", V(20) in the above code).
You might have a pull-down menu option to do this; the old-school method is something like:
* WARNING: untested code
* ANALYSIS
.TRAN 5US 1000MS
*
* VIEW RESULTS
.PRINT TRAN V(1) V(2) V(20) V(77)
*
.PROBE
.END
In LTSpice the table command really creates a kind of dictionary where you have to specify key value pairs. The proper directive for your case would then be:
.step param Rx list 1 2 3
.param R1 table(Rx,1,1k,2,1Meg,3,1k)
.param R2 table(Rx,1,10k,2,1Meg,3,10Meg)
and set the value of the resistors to {R1} and {R2} respectively.
If you want to have the values of a resistor near to it, you can also enter (instead of value, when right clicking onto it)
R=table(Rx,1,10k,2,1Meg,3,10Meg)
into the resistor value field. This works the same way for all kinds of components and with an external script to create .asc files it can be used as a crutch for LTspices missing monte carlo functonality.
Best Answer
Here's the closest procedure I've got to the fully automated approach:
I've created a parameter called VGG for the gate voltage source, then I've stepped it throught the desired points:
Then for each desired Vds value, I've created a corresponding variable Id_ using the .meas:
As I needed 7 different Vds values, I had to write 7 different .meas lines (thus 7 Id_ variables). But I guess it's better to write 7 lines than writing 49 lines.