bypassing tone control?

[Jay_SDS]

what would be the result or outcome sound wise of bypassing the tone control in a guitar? ... more bass?.. more treble? would it give the pickup a more true accurate sound?

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: bypassing tone control?

More Treble. The tone control dumps the highs to ground. On ten is the retains the most high's allowed for that specific tone control. Rolling the tone control towards zero allows more highs to be removed from the signal. Removing the tone provide for all of the highs to be retained. Removing the tone control would provide the brightest possible tone for your guitar's pickups.

 

[Jay_SDS]

Re: bypassing tone control?

thanks for the reply, it just seems one of my guitars has too much bass (bottem end), could it be a problem with the tone control/ resister?

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: bypassing tone control?

What kind of guitar do you have? Do you know what pickups it has? You might try lowering the pickup height. That'll probably help it some. Try it and see if it helps enough.

BTW, I forgot to welcome you to the forum.
So, welcome to the forum, Jay.

What's your rig? If you don't mind me asking.

 

[Jay_SDS]

Re: bypassing tone control?

my rig is ... line 6 pod pro, BBE maximizer, Nady 200 power amp, into a 4x12 marshall cab. effects are .. morley wah, cry baby wah, digitech overdrive.
Guitars are, ESP F-50. ESP F-100, ESP EC-100, and ESP-M-100.

 

[Guitar Toad]

Re: bypassing tone control?

Great stuff. Which one has the low end "problem"?

 

[Jay_SDS]

Re: bypassing tone control?

the ESP F-50 w/ duncan designed HB-103 (i also have this pickup in 2 of my other ESP guitars but it is just much more muffled and real bassy in the F-50

 

[Telesexual]

Re: bypassing tone control?

Like guitar toad suggest, try lowering the bass side of the humbucker and see where you are from there. Id say last case scenerio you would want to remove the tone control unless you plain just do not use it