strange pot

[0v3nm4n]

A few companies are putting out guitars or just plain old aftermarket pots/filters that do interesting things:

http://www.reverendguitars.com/instrument/tricky-gomez/

reverend is using the bass contour....ok, that's cool. Kind of the coil tap/split alternative

http://www.stellartone.com/index.asp

these guys are making a tone pot that doesn't just go 'tone - no tone' they go through a bunch of capacitors and you get a lot of tone cut off levels, which seems pretty useful

http://teye-guitars.com/electronics/

then there's this guy. What is he doing exactly? Did he take a reverend bass contour and a stellar tone pot and drop them into his wiring circuits? He doesn't want anyone looking at what his 'mood knob' is and I cant find any definitive answers.

What I'd like to know/discuss/figure out/learn...what ever you call it, is buying a stellar tone worth the money or is there a better alternative... also how the reverend bass knob stands up to the 'mood knob' and how both products stand up to coil tapping/splitting.

Any thoughts?

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: strange pot

All various types of passive filters that should have been put on electric guitars from the start IMO. I'm glad that some companies have started using something other than the standard treble cut type of tone control. If it catches on, hopefully people will realize that they don't need to have to choose between hundreds of $70 aftermarket pickups just to get the tone they want, when $10 worth of components will do it for them.

 

[0v3nm4n]

Re: strange pot

I agree, but the stellar tone products are $200