Be honest: Do you use your tone knob?

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where did my post go?

to keep it short:

always on 10 - because something less than 10 with a passive eq means cutting.
exeption: buzzing zz top like sounds, or machine-gun effects on the les paul :D .

i think having an amp-setup with a ton of presets you don't really want to use a tone knob on your guitar but your amps eq - otherwise you cut signal before it reaches the amp. i don't like that.

but having a simple guitar-to-nonEffectedAmp setup I think you really HAVE to use what you've got.
 
(I was thinking guitar tone knob. And I do realize that it's a passive filter, cutting out the highs. But you can get it to sound good too...)
 
I use it quite a bit to be honhest. When playing I'll generally adjust the volume knob or change the toggle position but between songs I'll almost always alter the tone controls. I very rarely have it set to 10 nor 1, it's always somewhere in between. Depending on the song and the guitar in use I alter it before hand knowing the resulting sound it will produce.

On LP's the tone at 10 sounds way to harsh and 1 sounds so bad (though it can have it's moments). i tend to have the treble a little higher on the bridge pickups and lower on the neck.

What you may also find is that some guitars are affected more by adjustemts (usually dependednt on the pots (I think)).
 
I use it on my Custom LP here the tone-knobs work wonderfully. Then I have a volume-only guitar and a on/off switch guitar.. :)
 
Krystof01 said:
What you may also find is that some guitars are affected more by adjustemts (usually dependednt on the pots (I think)).
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It very much depends on which capacitor is used. This is an easy to do mod. Just changing that capacitor will change the freq response of the filter. (The most common circuit is just a resistor(the pot) and a capacitor...)

And offcourse it depends on the pickup. The output is highly dependable on the input... :P
 
I play an Ernie Ball/Musicman Van Halen guitar and the volume knob is labled "Tone". Its appropriate. Tone knobs on guitars are useless. I hate them.
 
i use it all the time. its a tool . but never recorded with it..like toyl says:-
"three ingrediants make a song interesting, memorable, and fun for me--variations in tempo, levels and "tone"--I view "tone" as the catalyst variation that "enables" variations in tempo and levels...even subtle changes in tempo,"

tone is like vowels !!!
 
cakewalkKaKed said:
i use it all the time. its a tool . but never recorded with it..like toyl says:-
"three ingrediants make a song interesting, memorable, and fun for me--variations in tempo, levels and "tone"--I view "tone" as the catalyst variation that "enables" variations in tempo and levels...even subtle changes in tempo,"

tone is like vowels !!!
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I'll have a puff of what your on if that's OK.

Are we having a "see who can bump the oldest thread" competition by any chance?
 
hahahaha !!!!! nope.. just got on here mate.. have no idea of the popularity of the site !!!! ...

no .. it was the first post i read.. didnt look at date !!!..
so er... you dont use your knob then?
 
I'm one that'll keep my tone control(s) at 10, and use my volume(s) in shaping the overall tone of the guitar. With my Squier Bullet Special, Fender So Cal Speed Shop Strat and Fender FSR Straight Six Stratocaster, it's all in the volume knob, when shaping the tone, as that's the only knob on each guitar, as well as each only having a humbucker at the bridge. On occasion, when jamming, I'll turn the tone control(s) all the way to 0, and crank the volume(s) to 10, which yields a fat and rich distortion like fuzz, without a pedal or overdriving the amp. Not every guitar does that one well, however. My Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster can, and my Gibson Les Paul Faded Double Cut and Les Paul Melody Maker as well, but when I tried it with my Peavey JF2 EX, there was a bit too much muddy growl for my taste.

Matt
 
cakewalkKaKed said:
hahahaha !!!!! nope.. just got on here mate.. have no idea of the popularity of the site !!!! ...

no .. it was the first post i read.. didnt look at date !!!..
so er... you dont use your knob then?
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Don't call me mate only Telepaul can do that.
 
Neither of my guitars have a tone knob, just a single volume knob, which I don't use much either. Classical guitarists vary their tone quite a lot; they don't have tone knobs ;)
 
I routinely take it from 10 to something less than 10 and then back to 10 to make sure it's still on 10.

Don't the Godin guitars have some kind of graphic EQ? That actually makes sense to me more than a knob. I'd rather set my EQ on the amp. But that's just me.

I really think we should all be using 32 band EQs to really dial in the sound we want.
 
I use it all the time. Just a small adjustment usually, to tweak the sound to the song in question.



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Honestly, I never take it off 10 on any of my guitars. Too easy to go slightly off the mark with the knob which messes up continuity for recording. I just set up my patches for each guitar on the preamps and keep things simple.
 
This thread must be like a locust which emerges every 7 years.
 
I use my tone controls digitally- all the way up or all the way down.
 
I seldom adjust the controls on my amp I do almost everything from the guitar. I even use the 0 tone setting on one song.
 
Isn't the interval for the "year of the locust" ever 17 years? You know, I grew up calling cicada locusts, but have come to realize that locusts are a type of grasshopper. But according to Merriam Webster, "locust" is listed under the definition of "cicada". Who, oh who, can straighten this out for me?

Anyhoo...

I rarely, if ever take my tone knob off 10. Every once in a while I will, but its more for special effect than tone shaping.
 
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