TBX Tone Pot Wiring

[Mincer]

I honesty never had a guitar with a TBX. It has been very long since I played something like a Clapton Strat with it, so help me out...practically, what does it do?

[Chris Pile]

Turn it counter-clockwise, it rolls the treble off (like a normal tone pot). Turn it clockwise, and it rolls off the bass. Simple, elegant, useful. And NO batteries.

[jeremy]

i dont think thats the stock wiring or at least not the way mine came but there have been a few "stock" wiring methods over the years, basically its a stacked pot with a cap and resistor. from 0-5 you get a 250k tone pot with a .022 cap. at the detent, i believe both pots are out of the circuit which is why there is a resistor there or you get a no-load pot at that spot. an 82k resistor is stock but i liked 220k better. from 6-10 its a 1meg tone pot with the same .022 cap. theres no bass cut there, it just sounds brighter cause the 1meg pot. if you rolled off the bottom using the .022 cap, youd have a really shrill tone. you can rewire it for a bass cut/treble cut though

[Mincer]

Hmm, I don't think I would have any use for a bass cut. Most pickups are to shrill for me.

[Chris Pile]

Works great on basses (I have one on my Yamaha BB-100), and they make a humbucker sound like a Tele. Works well on a Les Paul to play funk lines. If they didn't work, and people didn't like them - they wouldn't be stock on so many Fenders.

[Francois]

I suspect that I have a TBX tone in my (more or less) main guitar : a Jeff Beck Signature Strat version one. But I am not sure.
The bridge pickup is an genuine ice pick when the tone is full up when I play in a clean channel (well I mostly play with some kind of gain or distortion).
Maybe I should do like Jeremy.
Because I want the full tone but not more and you are never sure where the tone should be : 5 ? 6 ?
That said I would not call the TBX a tone sucker.

[Chris Pile]

Yes - 5, in the middle.

[dystrust]

i dont think thats the stock wiring or at least not the way mine came but there have been a few "stock" wiring methods over the years, basically its a stacked pot with a cap and resistor. from 0-5 you get a 250k tone pot with a .022 cap. at the detent, i believe both pots are out of the circuit which is why there is a resistor there or you get a no-load pot at that spot. an 82k resistor is stock but i liked 220k better. from 6-10 its a 1meg tone pot with the same .022 cap. theres no bass cut there, it just sounds brighter cause the 1meg pot. if you rolled off the bottom using the .022 cap, youd have a really shrill tone. you can rewire it for a bass cut/treble cut though

Hmm, I don't think I would have any use for a bass cut. Most pickups are to shrill for me.

I have a modded TBX with a 1000pf bass cut cap in my 12-string Yamaha Pacifica. I don't use it very often on the bridge pickup, but it's great when the neck pickup is too full and cluttered sounding.