How many of you use you TONE knobs ??

[SGSpecialguy]

I was watching a Bonamassa video and he was talking tone knobs on your guitar and how he uses them alot, personally I dont use them much at all, they stay on 10 , I do use my volume knobs alot but not my tone knobs,, how bout you guys :D

[MojoRedFoot]

It varies depending on the guitar. For my strats, Jaguar and LTD MH 301 (w/ passive HBs), I cut back on the tone to about 7 or 8. I pretty much leave everything else at 10.

[heymisterk]

I use them only when I turn them up all the way and leave them there every time I play.

[Andre S]

Its just like he said, there are loads of tone in your tone knobs...

[Witmer]

I kind of run my Les Paul in two configurations. One of them is with both volumes at 10, and the tone knobs at 7. With these knob settings I get substantially different sounds by using the pickup selector switch, and can always add more "chime" by turning up a tone knob. Most of the sounds here are relatively mellow, or at least warm when crunchy.

 

The other configuration I learned from the guys here - I dime both tone knobs and the neck pickup volume. Bridge volume on 5. This gives me a more biting attack which works better for aggressive sounds. The pickup selector stays in the middle, and if I need even more bite I'll dime the bridge pickup too.

[Notes_Norton]

I use them to get different sounds out of the guitar - depending on my mood and the song.

 

Some nights I don't touch them at all (not in a tweaking mood), others I adjust them frequently.

 

I seldom run them too low, as it sounds muddy to me, but mostly keep them between 5 and 10.

 

Insights and incites by Notes ?

[Dom_JEM]

i use them on my ibanez guitars but not any of the others

[Riffster]

Having 500K pots on the volumes, better pots and the right wiring will give you a lot more room to move around and will allow you to get a lot more sounds, good sounds.

[jimmiJAMM]

Of course I do. That's kinda what they're there for as opposed to an on/off switch.

[ShredAstaire]

^ Yeah! What he said!!

 

You can find some nice tone playing with those knobs....(ok that sounded wrong)

[SGSpecialguy]

The other configuration I learned from the guys here - I dime both tone knobs and the neck pickup volume. Bridge volume on 5. This gives me a more biting attack which works better for aggressive sounds. The pickup selector stays in the middle' date=' and if I need even more bite I'll dime the bridge pickup too.[/quote']

 

an interesting concept that I'll have to try,,

kind of suprised at the responses in the "yes" factor,, to me it use to sound like pilling a bunch of socks in front of your speaker, Ive always like clarity and presence in my tone, of course not BITING tone like Albert Collins or nothing,,

[Twiz]

When I play through the neck pup, I sometimes like to turn the tone knob down all the way. -Especially if I'm using a fuzz box. I love the tone I get with that.

 

Here's a pretty cool trick to get a wah effect with only your guitar:

 

Put your pickup selector switch in the middle (so you're getting both pups). Then, turn your tone knob down all the way on your rhythm (neck) pickup. Leave all the other knobs up all the way. Hit a chord and then rapidly switch between bridge and neck pickup. The tone being at 0 for the neck, and the bridge tone being at 10 will give you a wah type sound when you switch. It's pretty cool. I can't remember who I learned that from. -I probably read it in some guitar magazine. Of course, nothing beats a real wah, but it's fun to get different sounds out of just a guitar!

[charlie brown]

Been using the tone knobs, and volume knobs, for years. Back off the tone,

when I want a fatter or mellower tone, and dime them, at times, for what that gives me.

I even had my Strat wired, years ago...so the bottom tone knob works with the bridge pickup,

and the middle tone knob, works the middle and neck pickups. How much I used the tone

knob, depends on (1) which amp I'm using....oddly enough, I use it more, with Fender amps

than with Marshall's, (2) which effects I'm using, and (3) if I'm playing rhythm or "lead," and

even which guitar I'm using. But, that's probably just "my" personal preferences....your's

may/will vary, no doubt.

 

CB

[Bluemoon]

all the time.

[Blackie]

Roll it back a little sometimes

[Shnate McDuanus]

I use them when I need to.

[FirstMeasure]

Big Knob User here.

 

Twiz, try that on a Strat with the Middle Tone down Half Way, the Neck Tone all the way down, and of course there's no Bridge Tone. Then listen to the range you get out of that Hand Wah.

[80LPC]

I changed my RGX to on/off operation. I went through loads of caps to get just the sound I was after. This way, when the switch is off, it lets more highs through because the output is not being loaded by the tone pot. With the switch on I get a nice effect like a wah in the heel position.

[DAS44]

I use them a lot. It's all about the versatility factor. If I want a sound I'll fiddle with them.

 

sometimes I can get an almost tele like twang outta my LP....

[Hall]

do.

[Californiaman]

I'm always playing with the tone nob and the volume nob, especially on the ES-175.

Doesn't matter which guitar I use, I'm a tone nob tweaker.

[Shnate McDuanus]

sometimes I can get an almost tele like twang outta my LP....

 

I can get some nice twang out of my SG.

[SGSpecialguy]

to get a tele twang out of a bucker, you'd have to have the tone knob wide open on 10 no ??

[Shnate McDuanus]

to get a tele twang out of a bucker' date=' you'd have to have the tone knob wide open on 10 no ?? [/quote']

 

Correct. On the bridge pickup. And it helps to pick near the bridge if you're really going for full-on, straight-ahead twang.

 

I find that most of the time I use the neck pickup with the tone at around 5 to 7 for rhythm. I go lower for a mellower sound and I go higher for more articulation and punch. Fingerpicking sounds nice with the switch in the middle position, the bridge tone knob dimed and the neck tone knob at around 4. Leads come out from the middle position with the neck volume backed off to around 6 and both tone knobs dimed. If I want more of a Leigh Stephens or Alvin Lee sort of sound I'll play right out of the neck pickup with the tone at around 4. For twang it's the bridge pickup, with as much treble as possible.

[bobrollar]

I usually keep my bridge tone around 6 or 7 when using the slide...or most of the time I use both pick ups at once ill keep them pretty close to 8, usually never all the way up to 10 unless I'm on the neck pickup and want that real crisp clean tone.