Tone Knob - Useful Or Useless? |
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Aug 13 2010, 01:33 PM
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For metal I put it all the way up and when I'm practising example Superstitious solo, I turn it down.
So all the time 
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Aug 13 2010, 02:34 PM
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It depends on the other gear and style of music IME. If you have a good responsive amp behind you, it's good to have volume and tone controls on the guitar, it can mean a lot. This doesn't mean it's needed, you can use pedals, amp's EQ etc. Style of music is important as well. On high gain settings, I don't find the tone control that much useful, amp's EQ can be more useful there. High gain is compressed, and for metal styles there is little room for dynamics, so using one tone setting will do.
I usually start a gig with volume and tone settings set to 7, so I can have a boost or more overdrive for solos, if I don't use any pedals or boosters. This way I can crank the amp, and control the amount of overdrive and a bit of brightness on the go. If I use booster/footswitch for the amp, there is little need for it. Possibly tweaking the sound a bit when the gig starts so it comes out a bit darker/brighter, depending on what I hear. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Aug 13 2010, 04:24 PM
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I never use it, already have enough knobs on my stomps and multi-fx
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Aug 13 2010, 07:58 PM
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I roll it back a lot of times to get a nice creamy solo tone..
This post has been edited by ruben_mcn: Aug 13 2010, 08:00 PM |
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Aug 13 2010, 11:38 PM
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I rarely use tone control, but still use it sometimes depending on the playing, mostly just cleaning up playing clean tone.
Mostly I enjoy using and rolling volume control when playing like at the beginning leading into a rock song, starting of lighter or even off can be a real kick start! Metallica does this a lot in their songs and fading out. This post has been edited by Azzaboi: Aug 13 2010, 11:38 PM --------------------  Play Games Arcade Take a break, Play Games! Play the best free online flash games at Aaron's Game Zone like Bloons Tower Defense 4! |
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Aug 14 2010, 12:29 AM
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Mine locks in a middle position, where i suppose it has no effect. And there it stays 100% of the time.
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Aug 14 2010, 02:55 AM
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It's very useful on Active mics. The full position of the tone knob gives a warm sound that is so needed on active mics.
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Aug 14 2010, 04:21 AM
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Wow I'm actually surprised many don't use it! I thought people wouldn't use them much, yeah... but not at all?
Your'll notice people like Slash muck around with them at the beginning. Yet I never really bothered to find out how to use them till just not so long ago. Lower volume slightly for playing rhythm, then roll it up to max to really kick in the lead solos. This is the biggest and easiest boost to playing I've found. With the tone pots... honestly most tone pots do suck, stock ones for any guitar almost alway start killing the tone when turned down. Even in my Les Paul Gibson, I replaced the stock ones. The best way to change the tone is... Tone pot replacement: 250K pot is warmer and smooth sounding 500K pot is brighter and fuller sounding The tone change make it's brighter or darker sounding. Also can cut off minor treble and buzz. My Les Paul Gibson has a large range of tone (bright / screaming), sounds totally different lowering them (dark / bassy). The stock tone pots did very little... but still had a range. However, if I had more knowledge about it then, I suggest going for the Stellartone Tonestyler Tone pot: These are truely what is needed if you want to use the tone pots! This post has been edited by Azzaboi: Aug 14 2010, 04:31 AM -------------------- Play Games Arcade Take a break, Play Games! Play the best free online flash games at Aaron's Game Zone like Bloons Tower Defense 4! |
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Aug 14 2010, 05:39 PM
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QUOTE (Artemus @ Aug 13 2010, 08:30 PM)  That was what I did for years, then I realised I only ever used a couple of settings - now I'm just too lazy to stomp on pedals so I'll tweak my vol/tone knobs before thinking about using my feet. I guess I'll have to give it a try then 
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Aug 14 2010, 06:23 PM
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I used to not use it, but I've been using it recently. I like to give it a mello tone every once in a while.
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