I seem to remember someone using hijack to remap each knob click to two or three volume changes, but I've never tried it.

In all honesty, when I first got mine, it bugged me, too, but the ability to control the volume with the amount of precision that that allows outweighed that annoyance quite a bit. That is, I'm sure we've all been in the situation where the stereo's too quiet, but the next click up is too loud. Never had anything resembling that problem with the empeg.