Who actually uses the tone knob?

[dk_ace]

I use the volume and tone knobs constantly.

Sometimes I dial things in with the tone around 7 so that I have some extra treble headroom available if I find I need it in a gig straight from the guitar.

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[Jynx]

I use it, but I only have two tones. All the way to the bright side. And almost all the way to the dark side.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Fwiw, my most common tone knob use has got to be to get a fake jazz tone out of whatever neck pickup on solid or semi-hollow guitars. "Fake" because real jazz boxes on traditional recordings actually are quite bright-ish. Just that you don't get that rich tone from solid or semi-hollow bodies, so there comes the tone control.

 

[HotRats]

On my Les pauls, one in particular, I some times play with bridge tone up to half way down especially with new strings.

I also sometimes like to use the middle position with neck tone closwd and bridge tone open.

 

[laxu]

Fwiw, what I sometimes like doing is to dial the tone knob way back (almost fully closed), then use the bridge pickup and a wah to get into kinda synth-ish territory.
Here's some quick noodling:

That's a straight up pimpin' soundtrack there!

 

[metropolis_4]

Fwiw, my most common tone knob use has got to be to get a fake jazz tone out of whatever neck pickup on solid or semi-hollow guitars. "Fake" because real jazz boxes on traditional recordings actually are quite bright-ish. Just that you don't get that rich tone from solid or semi-hollow bodies, so there comes the tone control.

That’s a big one for me too. I rarely have room in the theater pit for all the instruments I need, so I almost always cover the archtop and jazz box parts on either a solid body electric or my acoustic. Usually because of instrument changes it ends up being neck pickup on the electric with the tone rolled down

 

[László]

Always. Why wouldn't I want to shape my tone if I can?

 

[FuzzyAce]

Always. Why wouldn't I want to shape my tone if I can?

I agree. And even if don't like standard tone controls use the holes for something you would like. Maybe a blend pot, a series/parallel switch, a kill switch, active boost, etc. No point having a control that's taking up space and not getting utilized.

 

[Richard_G]

I do.

 

[Frodebro]

Times are hard when men find themselves forced to bicker in a thread about fucking tone knobs. That’s some splashing in the shallow end shit right there.

 

[megametal7]

I play thrash… vol 10 tone 10…. Pedal to the metal….

They are always on, I never use but I like eutectics of it. I dont like guitar with just Vol Knob.

 

[László]

Times are hard when men find themselves forced to bicker in a thread about fucking tone knobs. That’s some splashing in the shallow end shit right there.

One has to count one's blessings.

At least we're not bickering about the shape/color of the knobs or whether they're in the best spot on our guitars. Though I rule out nothing!