Guitar Fetish Clapton "Woman Tone" circuit?

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Or you could simply roll back your tone control and do it the way Eric did. I wouldn't bother putting in a mod.
 
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Well if I did that I wouldn't get the sound I wanted. :D

Just for convenience so you don't have to click the link, heres what it does:

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It says woman tone, but I don’t think that's actually what they're going for.
 
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I think you would be better off with an EQ. You won't have to mod your guitar and if you find a setting you like you can apply it to all of your guitars.
 
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If you wanting the Woman Tone most often in the default tone knob full position -just change the capacitor value and maybe the taper if you fiddle a lot to see which interaction with your pickups gives you that rolled off sound.

otherwise just get good at quickly rolling your tone knob to the sweet spot in conjunction with the gain and volume and room size you are playing in on whatever occasion.
 
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Maybe I should more clearly state the situation. I currently have a guitar drilled for two pots and a switch, somewhere along the line of previous owners the tone pot disappeared. I have no use for it but I want to fill the hole with something useful.

I play punk and I find the 3 options on this switch useful, a bassier to to fill in the low end for rhythm playing, a scooped setting for a skankier punk sound, and a midboost for solos.

I came hear to ask if this is a passable unit that will fill those needs. I am not after a woman tone, thats just the name of the product.
 
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That isn’t Clapton’s “Woman Tone” circuit at all, and I don’t think it’s even the current Clapton boost/tone in his signature Strats, thought it looks like it might do some interesting useful stuff.
 
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It seems like this is an on board boost and they are using the Clapton name to get attention since the clapton Strat has a built in boost. I like that it’s on a push/pull, the clapton is boosting even on 0. The description of bass/mid/scooped is interesting. The old TBX could do multiple functions due to the stacked pot, this is only one pot but it is active.

Do you have a place for the 9V? It’s a little tight stuffing it in the control cavity. I’d say go for it. If you are familiar with wiring, adding in a stereo jack for battery switching and want an experiment, why not? There is probably someone here that has used it, but who knows...
 
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He just wants to know if the circuit works

probably does

get one and try it
its easily reversible

I haven't had one

but some of their other stuff works as advertised
 
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Tried it....didn’t like it...cheap trick and sounds it.
 
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The GFS circuits are rebranded Artec. I bought an Artec QTA booster and it's pretty subtle and not much of a boost at all. I had it installed in a guitar for a while but took it out and put it in a metal box to use as a pedal and it was more useful that way. http://www.artecsound.com/pickups/index.html
 
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A Strat won't get the woman tone no matter what you put into it. That tone was a stock Gibson into the right amp, and Clapton's fingers.
 
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First: HORRIBLE PRODUCT NAME!!!!! Did someone at Duncan come up with it?

Second: Cool tone knob

Three: Woman Tone = Turn tone knob down, turn JTM 45 up. Use SG.
 
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Don't forget, Clapton has said he used the bridge pickup with the tone rolled off - not the neck pickup. Phil X uses it to great effect on several songs, but especially when he plays the solo to "American Woman".
 
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Mincer said:
A Strat won't get the woman tone no matter what you put into it. That tone was a stock Gibson into the right amp, and Clapton's fingers.
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Yep. A Gibson with humbuckers, a cranked Marshall and Clapton's talent and imagination.

And a tone control turned almost all the way down.

Clapton didn't use a boost or distortion pedal.

A lot of younger players who weren't there, have no idea how much influence Clapton had. He was the EVH of his day in the 60's.

A HUGE influence on pretty much every rock guitarist who came after.

They didn't call him God back then for no reason. No one had ever sounded exactly like that before.
 
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they called him God because some graffiti artist misspelled Good
 
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idsnowdog said:
The GFS circuits are rebranded Artec. I bought an Artec QTA booster and it's pretty subtle and not much of a boost at all. I had it installed in a guitar for a while but took it out and put it in a metal box to use as a pedal and it was more useful that way. http://www.artecsound.com/pickups/index.html
Click to expand...

Is the Artec BCU any good? It varies between a flat boost, a mid boost, and a bass/treble boost.
 
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That gizmo is called "Marketing".

EC "woman-tone" was a Gibson LP with the tone knob rolled all the way off into a Marshall.

Seeing how Clapton hasn't played a Marshall or Les Paul in 50+ years again i say : "Marketing".
 

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