Tone knobs. What are they for!?!

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I have always been the type to rather have a tone knob than not have it, but lately I've been cutting them from the circuits. There is enough tone suck going on later in the chain and lots of opportunities to change the sound if you want to such that I don't want any fidelity being lost within the guitar itself. My preference (for now at least). I've found that without the tone pots there at all, I get a brighter and more present sound, and if I need to take the edge off, a notch or two on the volume knob does that just fine since high frequencies are the first to go. I actually feel like I have more control over the sound of my guitar now, which is weird, but hey if it ain't broke...
 
Randy Van Sykes":1ti92bvu said:
Strats and Teles...a tone knob is useless to me on a double coil guitar.
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Agree 100%. Tone knobs tame the icepick on the bridge pu of Strats and Teles but turn to mud with humbuckers. I don't play a lick of jazz either, so I rarely touch it. I wear out the volume knob though.
 
Also (as it seems a number of people do as well). Depending on the amp I'm playing, I like to run the tone knob down just a little bit. Like 9/8.5. Just takes off a little bit of the crunchiness-a bit smoother.
 
I agree the tone knob is most effective for jazz/lo gain applications.

Hard rock/Metal will amost always be tone maxed- but then I watched Glenn Tipton play some wicked solos and he was constantly twirling the tone during certain phrases. He kept it on the bridge pickup, but in places where I might flip to a neck he dialed the tone down......interesting
 
crankyrayhanky":cmx7uwzy said:
I agree the tone knob is most effective for jazz/lo gain applications.

Hard rock/Metal will amost always be tone maxed- but then I watched Glenn Tipton play some wicked solos and he was constantly twirling the tone during certain phrases. He kept it on the bridge pickup, but in places where I might flip to a neck he dialed the tone down......interesting
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That's similar to what I do but not for high gain stuff. I typically keep my bridge's tone knob at 10, sometimes 9 but it is common for my neck's tone knob to be all over the place.
 
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