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