Need help with a simple TONE CONTROL outboard box

[NoDimeAboveFive]

I have a guitar with no tone control. I want to add one, without modding the guitar. I would like to build a tone box with a cable in jack (from guitar), a tone pot with proper cap/resistor, and a cable out jack (out to amp). Can someone please draw or show the circuit (wiring diagram)? I can figure out a box. Thanks!

[Agileguy_101]

Re: Need help with a simple TONE CONTROL outboard box

It's pretty simple. Just connect the hot of the input to the input of the potentiometer and the sleeve of the input to the pot casing. Connect the out of the potentiometer to the hot of the output jack and the sleeve of the output jack to the pot casing.

Boom, done.

[Rich_S]

Re: Need help with a simple TONE CONTROL outboard box

That's a volume control, AG. He wants a tone control.

Mount two jacks in a box. Shields will be automatically connected, assuming the box is metal. Tie the tips of both jacks together. Tie the jack tips to the high leg of the pot. Solder the tone cap between the middle leg of the pot and ground.

Pot and cap values to taste. Start with 500K pot for humbuckers, 250K for single coils, 0.047 uF cap.

[Rich_S]

Re: Need help with a simple TONE CONTROL outboard box

Like this.



You can make it foot-switchable by adding a single pole switch between the input jack and the pot.

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Need help with a simple TONE CONTROL outboard box

You mean something like this?



I use this for reamping. It has both a Gibson and Fender tone control and volume pot inside it. I select the tone circuit I want with the switch.

[Agileguy_101]

Re: Need help with a simple TONE CONTROL outboard box

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