Do you use the tone knob on your guitar?

[Soya]

Nope never. My own built guitars have just 1 volume and factory guitars generally have 2 volumes instead. My only 3 knob guitar is my Schecter exotic and there's nothing else to put there I would use.

 

[Emperoff]

Now that I think of it, I do have a guitar without a tone pot. It had an EMG BTC installed that I removed and now it has a hole covered with electric tape instead

 

[BenjaminW]

Very rarely in the past, but I'm thinking about experimenting with an out of phase type of sound on my Les Paul with the tone knobs.

 

[lost_horizon]

Tf is a tone knob

I don't really use the tone knob at all during pickup tests as I simulate just hooking it up and having a blast. Plus I have stacked CTS 250kohm/500kohm pots so not everyone is gonna have that.

That said, there will be a Tonestyler on my first guitar build as I will only have 2 humbuckers and want as much freedom as possible and like the linearity of the choices.

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[Gain_Junkie93]

Always remove it

 

[TheWarAgainstTime]

Wait. What now? What capacitor and resistor? I typically want a guitar to sound like the tone pot is all the way up, but sometimes they seem too bright with the tone pot completely out of the circuit (from listening to demos anyway).

Yep, I ripped off the idea from Nolly in this thread a few years ago: https://www.sevenstring.org/threads...ence-modern-in-daemoness.320215/#post-4717424

It's essentially the same as how you'd wire up a normal tone control, but with a fixed value instead of a potentiometer

 

[USMarine75]

This should be standard in 2023.

 

[Deadpool_25]

Yep, I ripped off the idea from Nolly in this thread a few years ago: https://www.sevenstring.org/threads...ence-modern-in-daemoness.320215/#post-4717424

It's essentially the same as how you'd wire up a normal tone control, but with a fixed value instead of a potentiometer

Thanks! Love that. Now I'm thinking the only reason I might still want the tone knob is just for its push-pull to split the bridge pickup independently (with volume pot splitting the neck). I'm sure a toggle switch could do that too though. 🤔

 

[Deadpool_25]

This should be standard in 2023.

Research commences

 

[Shask]

Yep, I ripped off the idea from Nolly in this thread a few years ago: https://www.sevenstring.org/threads...ence-modern-in-daemoness.320215/#post-4717424

It's essentially the same as how you'd wire up a normal tone control, but with a fixed value instead of a potentiometer

I have done this before. Easy way to put a fake tone control on 10 in a guitar. Helps if having no tone control is making the guitar too bright and fizzy in the highs.

 

[WARBICH]

My main 7 has no tone knob. I have been known to take the cap off the knob so I don’t accidentally engage it.
But yes, I’d rather have no knob.

 

[Guitarjon]

I almost never use it. It can actually annoy me sometimes if I am dialing in a tone with the amp or modeler and then I realize the tone knob is at less than full. I'll be swapping some pickups in a couple guitars soon and am seriously considering not even wiring up the tone pot.

Absolutely never! I also never use the volume controls for anything other than to mute the guitar...

 

[Elric]

I almost never use it. It can actually annoy me sometimes if I am dialing in a tone with the amp or modeler and then I realize the tone knob is at less than full. I'll be swapping some pickups in a couple guitars soon and am seriously considering not even wiring up the tone pot.

+1. I always want the most toanz. Why would I ever set it less than full?

If I need a sound adjustment it is happening in a scene switch on my processor or the settings on the amp, etc... The tone control is far too coarse to fine tune anything to my taste, personally.

 

[LiveOVErdrive]

Absolutely never, though I'm curious to try an experiment of wiring one as a passive low cut instead of high cut. A "tightness" knob if you will.

 

[Wiltonauer]

I like to replace the tone pot on HH guitars with a push-pull pot that switches the neck pickup to parallel. I use the tone knob because it’s out of the way, it has fewer wires connecting to it, and I know I’ll never wear it out.

 

[Crungy]

My guitars with active pickups don't have a tone knob, same as my most of my 1 pickup guitars.

The ones that do have a tone knob: I'll use it more as intentional muddy/blurry effect with big reverb and delay sounds.

I find them the most useful on guitars with single coil pickups (tele) or a P bass or Jazz bass. I think it has the biggest effect on feel with bass guitar.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

If they call it a tone knob, then why does it make my tone sound worse and not better?

 

[jaxadam]

Never.

 

[LiveOVErdrive]

Oh wait I do use it on the rare occasion that I'm playing jazz. Neck pickup and roll the tone down a bunch.

 

[Joan Maal]

Never... I usually use the hole to install a killswitch.