Does anyone disconnect their tone pots?

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The No Tone Zone!!!

I've got 3 or 4 others with 1 volume knob and a switch but they either @ my drummer's house or put away in their cases & I'm too lazy to get them out for a photo? I've got even more that look like they still have their tone knobs but they aren't hooked up to anything?

I got tone controls on my amplifiers, who needs em on the guitar too????
 
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Would you think disconnecting the tone pot would make a difference with this guitar with the JB/Jazz set? It also has a STK-S6 Custom Stack Plus in the middle......
 
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guitarSQUIRELL said:
Would you think disconnecting the tone pot would make a difference with this guitar with the JB/Jazz set? It also has a STK-S6 Custom Stack Plus in the middle......
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Think of the tone knob as running from 1-10 (darkest to brightest, or all the way down to all the way up.). When you remove the tone pot completely, it's like running the tone on 11, so it'll be a little brighter than having the tone pot in the signal path. If you play with your tone knob turned up all the way and never touch it, and wish it was just a little brighter, remove it. :D
 
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It does more than just cut brightness too, there's a drop in power. Not much, but enough to notice.

I wouldn't recommend disconnecting the tone knob on single coils though.
 
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Not me. Having an onboard tone control gives so much excellent control, if you bother to learn how to use it (and how to tune it by changing pot values, tapers, and cap values). I find it annoying not to have one. And removing the pot makes such a miniscule difference anyhow; IME it can't be heard in a real-world playing environment.
 
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I took the tone pot out of the 'rythmn' section of my Jaguar, allows me a brighter louder neck tone at a click of a switch and works well with the volume rolled down (takes away enough highs to be nice but not muddy)
 
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Use to...now I'm a huge proponent of the Fender TBX Tone and find myself adding Tone Pots rather than disconnecting them.
 
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You could always replace it with a push-pull to bypass the Tone completely and see which way you like it, or to have it when you want it and bypass it when you don't.

I've never had trouble with any of the pots on any of my guitars, even in the dark. I knew where they were at all times.

The switch, though, that's another story.
 
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Maybe in the future if we start experimenting with other sounds. For me I'm a straight up no bs rhythm guy, and usually have one sound in this band, which is the red channel on the 6505+ boosted with a TS9 on the bridge pickup! So the less I need to touch the better. If I need to clean it up I can roll down the volume, though I usually just switch to the green channel. For my single coil guitars though I've left the tones on for now.
 
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DrNewcenstein said:
You could always replace it with a push-pull to bypass the Tone completely and see which way you like it, or to have it when you want it and bypass it when you don't.

I've never had trouble with any of the pots on any of my guitars, even in the dark. I knew where they were at all times.

The switch, though, that's another story.
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Or just install a no load pot. Has a little detent at "10" that takes the pot completely out of the circuit. Fender has been putting them on their American Standard line since 2008.
 
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Powdered Toast Man said:
Or just install a no load pot. Has a little detent at "10" that takes the pot completely out of the circuit. Fender has been putting them on their American Standard line since 2008.
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I was just about to mention that. Tone knobs for humbuckers don't gel with me much either but I LOVE them for single coils, and my strat has the no load pot that indents when all the way up, effectively removing it from the circuit. It's there when I need it and not there when I don't. Really surprised they aren't more popular.
 
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i use the seymour duncan dimebucker, so, really not much sense disconecting the tone from that, but also i have a blower switch for when i want to pierce some ears.....
 
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I'll probably leave them in my Fenders (strat + tele) but I don't ever use them for my humbucker type guitars as I rarely change my sound. If I never use them then there's little point them being there.
 
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I always disconnect the tone control from neck single coils in strats. I can tell when I play one that still has the tone control hooked up to it. It sounds muffled, even on 10. I like having a tone control on the middle and bridge though.
 
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EDX said:
i use the seymour duncan dimebucker, so, really not much sense disconecting the tone from that, but also i have a blower switch for when i want to pierce some ears.....
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Odd. I agree with you, but Dime disconnected all his tone pots!
 
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Falloffthebonetone said:
Odd. I agree with you, but Dime disconnected all his tone pots!
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on his deans at least, 'cause as i know grady never mentioned disconecting the tone on the washburns and on some vid i don't remember correctly dime moves his tone on one of his washburns before the solo (but he might had moved it wrongly or i could had seen bad dunno for shure)
 
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I couldn't do it, I couldn't live without my tone knob. I almost always have it on 6-8, and as low as 1.5 when I want a jazzier sound.
 
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I did the opposite on my strat, with the pot at 10 it's like it's not there but I can roll off top end and get a lot more variety now too. :D
 
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I did the opposite on my strat, with the pot at 10 it's like it's not there but I can roll off top end and get a lot more variety now too. :D
 
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