Anyone else roll their tone knob down a little?

[Texas Swamp]

I always find myself with all humbuckers to really get that sweet spot is to roll the tone down on the bridge to about 7 or 8. To me the sound of those tapered off highs just makes riffing oh so sweet but I want to do lead, I roll it back up to about full volume. I do this more on my SG but not at all on my Les Paul since the Rio Grande BBQ kind of naturally has tapered off highs.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Anyone else roll their tone knob down a little?

when going clean on certain guitars.

I like the bridge pickup of my jaguar to be smooth when clean, not sharp, as usual.

 

[Jessie Sammler]

Re: Anyone else roll their tone knob down a little?

I often roll down the tone to about 7 or so when I'm playing clean, whether it's with a neck or bridge humbucker. It makes for a nice soft texture that's great for jazzy stuff.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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I am constantly turning every knob all of the time.

 

[SabbathFan0220]

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Yep. I almost never use the tone knob(s) on 10. Once in a while I'll bring the tone to 10 and roll off the volume a little to compensate. Everything on 10 is just too harsh to my ears.

 

[Travis H]

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I love my guitars bright some thing about it just turns me on

 

[sosomething]

Re: Anyone else roll their tone knob down a little?

Humbuckers? Not usually. The rest of the time? Yeah, often. I tend to leave the tone knob at around 7 or so on my Tele - especially when using the bridge pickup. It's barely perceptible but it does smooth out the sound a little without making it sound dull.

 

[STINNETT]

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I'm the opposite. I roll off the tone to 6 or 7 for leads. I like a touch of that Holdsworth thing happening with my tone.

 

[Christopher Caruana]

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I keep my tone knobs all the way open all the time

 

[DLT]

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I keep my tone knobs all the way open all the time

I used to do that too. Start experimenting before you get too old like me. You would not believe the different sounds one can get!

 

[trevorus]

Re: Anyone else roll their tone knob down a little?

I usually keep my tone on my bridge pickups rolled back just a tad.

 

[tc]

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I'm the opposite. I roll off the tone to 6 or 7 for leads. I like a touch of that Holdsworth thing happening with my tone.

+1.

I do like to have some attack on my leads though, so I'll usually fly between bridge and neck pickups mid solo. I tweak all the knobs when I play too.

I don't dig dull/muddy/inarticulate rhythm work, but when it comes to leads I can dig that Dave Murray/Santana super smooth tone for some licks, and then have that Paul Gilbert kinda super present, percussive pick attack click for some other things.

 

[Razix]

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I roll back the tone pretty often with humbuckers and almost always with single coils.

One exception to the rule: I have a basswood Washburn X-series that has an A2 Full Shred Bridge with 6 slotted screws on the treble side, an antiquity texas hot mid, and an antiquity texas hot custom bridge model in the neck. It's a screwy setup that works really well, and is plenty warm without rolling back the tone.

 

[Oceano]

Re: Anyone else roll their tone knob down a little?

I tend to not, but that's largely in part to the fact I play a Les Paul with a Custom in the bridge. When I play a Tele though I roll down the tone knob to get varying degrees of PAF vibe from the sound. That's prob my favorite thing about Teles.

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

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I only use it on on my clean sound sometimes (seeing as how only one of my 2 guitars actually has a tone knob anyway).
It would be utterly useless for my usual rhythm playing, because I play modern high gain stuff and it needs clarity

 

[ratherdashing]

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I'm always adjusting my volume and tone knobs. Rolling off a bit of treble is called for a lot of the time, especially on Strats and Teles.

 

[kramer.geetar]

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Umm...whats a tone knob?

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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I almost never have a tone control set on 10 unless I'm playing a Strat...I do crank those back sometimes but I do crank them to full sometimes as well...

 

[d1dsj]

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These days I tend to play mainly humbucker equiped guitars and set my rig up to get my desired sound with the bridge pick set at around 7 - 8 on the volume and 6 on the tone so I have a little in reserve.

 

[eschoendorff]

Re: Anyone else roll their tone knob down a little?

Depends on what I am trying to do; but I'm not afraid to mess with the tone knobs.