Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

[Old Ghost]

I was always wondering if anyone ever really use the tone control(s) on their guitars. I always have mine dialed in at full all the time and never touch it again except if I feel that my tone is sounding a bit bright, then I would back it off a little. I hear a few people complaining that certain pickups and such are too bright sounding, I was wondering if they even tried to roll off the tone control(s) on their axe to fix the problem. :scratchch :burnout:

 

[muttonchopsrule]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

i use mine occasionally if everything is sounding too bright. but not really other than that

 

[fusion101]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

i use it quite a bit expecially when i'm using the 59 and jb combo

 

[gordon_39422]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

Yeah, I use em all the time... In the neck position playing lead, I roll mine back to 0 for the warm buttery tone... In the bridge position, I have to roll it back to about 8-9... In the neck/mid position, I use it full on clean, but roll it down to 3 or so when using the drive channel on my amp... It only has one EQ, for the different gain stages, and clean is where I want it... Thus, I control the slight OD saturation via the tone pot on my Strat....

Now, that being said... the overall tone of my pups is where I want them... I have had other pups in the past that couldn't be tamed by the tone pots... As such, out they came....

Gotta jet, im in computer lab, and we got an assignment to do....
Allen

 

[Pandemonium]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

Never.

 

[chcjunior]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

i use mine occasionally if everything is sounding too bright. but not really other than that

Same here.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

Very rarely. Most of the time they're open full. Two of my guitars don't even have one.

 

[xerxes]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

all the time. on my strat i use them a lot...

on my ec-1000 i basically have the sound i want, which is not at all near the bright or bass side of the nob, kinda in the middle esk....

 

[Simon_F]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

I use the tone controls quite a lot.

 

[Armotron]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

I use them alot.

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

what's a tone control?






hahahaha just kidding...yeah i use it on occasion...but some of my guitars don't have them.

-Mike

 

[itbepopples]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

all the time.

 

[Artie]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

I never used to, but the Cool Rails in the bridge of my Strat really reacts well to it. I get a nice "Creamy" tone with the tone rolled back a bit.

 

[Mewmender]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

yes, i use it frequently

 

[ericmeyer4]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

not anymore... my current guitar only has two volume controls. i leave them full and adjust my effects and amp to get the sound i like. for me the simpler the better.

 

[CsaRvoX]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

in my first years of playing I never used to touch the tone&volume controls,then as my experience increases with my playing technique I began to fine tune every setting...and now I use my guitars' tone&volume controls a lot,even a slight tone difference from 4 to 5 could make a huge difference in a tube amp setting...by decreasing the guitar volume to 5 and boosting clean channel I get decent strat quack tones with bridge/medium combination....I wish I used them much earlier...

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

never used them when I was a full time bucker man...now that I play Strats and tele's most if the time I don't think I could live without them!

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

i use them alot, but i dont like it when they cut too deep into the midrange of the pickup tone. I'm just going to grab .01 uf orange drops so i can roll off the very tip of treble on my strat.

 

[taphappy]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

Only when I try to play jazz.

 

[B2D]

Re: Do you ever use the Tone Control(s) on your Guitar?

I use it here and there if I need to smooth things out a bit. It yeilds some interesting sounds when used with the bridge pickup and light overdrive.