Pros and Cons for No Tone Knob

Re: Pros and Cons for No Tone Knob

Depending on its use, you might also consider a spring loaded push/kill vol pot since space is an issue.
 
Re: Pros and Cons for No Tone Knob

I have no-load-tone pot in my Yngwie Strat and, honestly, I can heaqr there is a difference but it's so little that I wouldn't worry whether you have no-load-pot or normal tone pot at 10. They sound almost the same. I mean the difference between the no-load tone (250kohm) on 10 (out-of-the-circuit) and that same pot on 9 (in-circuit) is so little I wouldn't worry about it And you can get close enough if you just use a higher resistance pot. For humbuckers use 1Mohm (1000kohm) pot, it'a almost the same thing as no-load. And for strats use a 500k or even the 1M pot and you'll get close enough.
 
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I've got my #1 wired up so that selecting the Tone Zone bridge bypasses the tone pot. Works well for me. . .
 
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GuitarStv said:
I've got my #1 wired up so that selecting the Tone Zone bridge bypasses the tone pot. Works well for me. . .
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I was think about this setup. A tone zone in the bridge. It's got more of a bassier side, and not have a tone pot gives a "bit brighter". I thought this would work well.

Do you have any sounds clips or vids you could share?


Thanks for the link TubeCrunch!
 
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Megagwar said:
Do you have any sounds clips or vids you could share?
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I recorded this after getting my Charvel SoCal with standard wiring (1 vol knob, 3-pos switch, neck EVO/bridge Tone Zone) . . . it goes through:
- almost clean with neck and middle pickup
- gainier solo with the bridge
- crunch with the bridge volume slightly rolled back
- completely clean with neck (volume rolled back a bit)

Please don't mind the sloppy playing!

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=9899771&q=hi
 
Re: Pros and Cons for No Tone Knob

astrozombie said:
Honestly... you guys are overthinking this way too much. I used to remove the tone pots on my guitars JUST because I never use them and ended up putting it back on just because I felt like an idiot with an extra hole in the control plate.

Then again, I come and go like a mother bugger, I'm pretty manic when it comes to my guitar, I could snap and remove the tone pot later. you never know.

the difference isn't that audible.

WHY DONT YOU PRACTICE INSTEAD, IT DOES WONDERS FOR TONE.
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In humbuckers, it does make a bit of a difference. Without a tone pot, it's definitely brighter, so you get to have a better tone for solos. I do sometimes use one for the neck pickups, but not often. I think tone pots are better in single coil guitars. P90's with the tone all the way down, sound amazing clean.
 
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GuitarStv said:
I recorded this after getting my Charvel SoCal with standard wiring (1 vol knob, 3-pos switch, neck EVO/bridge Tone Zone) . . . it goes through:
- almost clean with neck and middle pickup
- gainier solo with the bridge
- crunch with the bridge volume slightly rolled back
- completely clean with neck (volume rolled back a bit)

Please don't mind the sloppy playing!

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=9899771&q=hi
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thanks for the clip! gives me a general idea of how it would sound.

nice jazzy bit at the end.
 
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