Tone knobs. What are they for!?!

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Just curious who uses the tone knob on their guitar?

I've been playing for 17 years and my tone knobs have remained squarely on 10, with the excepttion of occasional fiddling when I play jazzy stuff on my old archtop. Not that it sounds bad on 10 too.

Discuss! :yes:
 
Strats and Teles...a tone knob is useless to me on a double coil guitar.
 
Personally i can't live with a guitar if it has no Tone pot.

Using a tone pot, i can get the neck pickup on my Strats sounding just like a Les Paul whenever i need to. Also on my Les Paul when i'm going for that smooth Sykes style lead tone, the ONLY way to nail that sound is by rolling off the Tone pot.

So for me, i'm all FOR the Tone pot on a guitar :rock:
 
I use it quite a bit as well...more for the "other" styles I play (blues, classic rock, funk/fusion) than for my typical hard rock/classic metal leanings. It can really help to dial in various tonal shades that respond and feel like you need them to for a particular situation. I've even used it during rock/metal gigs when I felt my highs were a bit too spikey.
 
I'm fine with a tone pot if it is on a Stratocaster or Les Paul, but I am not overly fond of them on super strats where you only have one master tone.
 
If a guitar has a tone knob, I'll leave it on 10. If I get a guitar with no tone knob, I still use a resister and cap to emulate a tone knob on 10 because even on 10 it knocks off a bit of hi's.
 
I NEED the tone knob, I use it a lot.

when I play mostly Metal I didn't use it. Left it at 10 all the time.
 
I remove them completely to gain a little gain and shift the resonant peak up a little more.
 
I constantly manipulate my tone knob. I would not own a guitar without one.

My question is "how could a serious guitar player not know what a tone pot is for?"

You want a volume and tone knob schooling? Watch the Jeff Beck - Live at Ronnie Scott's DVD.
 
I tend to manipulate the tone knob more often when playing clean/lo-gain. I have no idea if that's typical or not but, it sounds good to me.
 
A tone knob on a tele is your friend. Use it and the audience won't throw things at you.
 
I used mine all the time with lower gain / slightly aggressive clean tones. With higher gain stuff, it's almost always all the way up.
 
I rarely run my tone on 10. I don't like a lot of fizz in my high gain so I roll the tone off to dial back the sizzle.
 
I could give two shits less about what a tone knob does or doesn't do... after seeing that picture of your rig in your signature I WANT TO HEAR IT!!!!!!!
 
boost":1di9zksw said:
A tone knob on a tele is your friend. Use it and the audience won't throw things at you.
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...and when you want to drive an ice pick through someone's head it's there at your fingerstips.
 
As said there are some tones that are best achieved using your tone knob, dialing your treble or presence back is not the same thing as turning down your tone knob IMO. Much the same way guys use a boost to cut lows before the preamp for a tighter response, using your tone knob can give you a smoother response and allow you to run your treble higher etc. That said there is something to be said for removing the tone knob altogether for some applications too, ymmv.
 
My main strat I disconected them. I left the pots and knobs on so it still looks normal. I would bump them all the time. drove me nuts plus I never use them. I justed using a volume knob a couple years ago
 
Badronald":2zc2jjaa said:
I constantly manipulate my tone knob. I would not own a guitar without one.

My question is "how could a serious guitar player not know what a tone pot is for?"

You want a volume and tone knob schooling? Watch the Jeff Beck - Live at Ronnie Scott's DVD.
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