Re: NGD: The Gold Standard
Sounds like every typical, stock onboard tone control I’ve ever used. 0 is mud, unless you swap to a lower cap value.
In an ideal world from an electronics engineer’s standpoint, you want a pickup bright when the tone is on 10, and dark when it is on 0. Those are your outer extremes on the knob, so they should correspond with your outer extremes tonally. Your normally inhabited zone on the tone knob is somewhere in between, and then you have the ability to go up or down in brightness.
If you prefer to run your pots on 10, then you just need to adjust your amp’s e.q. knobs to remove the high end you don’t like. Also, an outboard e.q. unit is the most powerful and versatile tone shaping effect you can use, yet it’s one of the least used. If people owned them en masse, and really knew how to use them well, the aftermarket pickup industry would certainly take a big hit. You want your guitar’s output to have an excess of high end, because it lets you shape your tone using amp, or outboard, e.q.
