Do you use the tone knob on your guitar?

[Hollowway]

Nope. Unless, like you say, I realize I've bumped it and need to turn it back to 10.

But, you've got the pot and the hole. Wire in something different, like a single coil to humbucker blend circuit. Or the old fender greasbucket mod. Or a mid boost.

 

[MatrixClaw]

Nope. I actually changed several of my guitars with two knobs to just be two volume knobs. I don't even know what I'd use the tone knob for, it just makes everything sound like a flubby mess

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Only when I feel like sounding like Tom G Warrior

With the occasional UGH as well

Or when I wanna get that Sleep/Sunn 0))) style no-attack-at-all neck pickup doomy wall of sound.

Otherwise. Nope. If I can take it out the guitar, I do. I do like @MatrixClaw does and replace it with a 2nd volume knob, or a mini toggle

 

[odibrom]

No use here, unless on my RG8. Some of my guitars don't even have a tone pot because it was replaced for a blender or a piezo volume. Some tones on my RG8 do need some tone pot noodling, which is made at a switch... it's an ON/ON/ON tone switch for Nothing/mid/full tone filtering... it features a trim pot for the mid position...

 

[protest]

Yea, but not all the time. Mainly with single coils or PAFs for clean and crunch tones. Certain pedals can cause a spike in high end too, and it'll help with that

 

[c7spheres]

Almost never but it is fun to turn all the way down and get woolly tones on a lead with neck pickup or simulate a bass etc. it's real handy with ambient stuff too and on fuzz control or psyco delic meanderings. Super useful on single coil Strats that are overly bright.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Same as others here, I only touch it when I realize I've accidentally turned it down. I've done the old foam or o-ring under the knob trick on several guitars because of that (looking at you, Strat, with the knobs too close to the strings, and also King V with knobs that turn if you blow on them).

I prefer to let everything flow from the guitar then sculpt it downstream.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

The only one that I have a functional tone knob is my Strat, and only and the bridge SC for when I have it on the 4th position. Otherwise, it’s yanked or never existed on the rest of my instruments.

 

[MetalDaze]

Nope. Always set on full.

 

[TheWarAgainstTime]

I pretty much only use the tone knob when I'm noodling around on clean/ambient stuff or maybe crunch/edge of breakup level of gain with my Thinline Tele. I've found that rolling the tone back can make shimmer reverbs and huge swells sound less cheesy, but that's not what I'm normally playing anyway. The majority of my guitars either never had tone controls or have blank spots where I've removed the tone control.

Ironically, I tend to wire in a resistor and capacitor to the volume control to make the guitar sound like there's a tone control turned all the way up since I've had issues with certain guitars and pickups sounding too spikey with only the tone circuit completely removed. One of my guitars that still has a tone control also has a blower switch, which sends the bridge pickup signal straight to the jack for when I want that extra 1% hitting the front of the amp

 

[Mathemagician]

Tf is a tone knob

 

[aWoodenShip]

Never use it. Was going to eventually get around to learning the wiring to mimic Misha's Jacksons, but now I'm more interested in the no load pots Max mentioned earlier. Sounds way simpler.

 

[Furtive Glance]

Nope!

 

[Emperoff]

I use it more and more lately. I only have one preset at home and I adjust the tone and volume to get a more fitting tone for whatever I'm jamming to. It's fun.

Live It's pretty much always on 10.

 

[Werecow]

I use it to roll off a tiny bit of top end off my EMGs sometimes. It fattens up some tones.
If i'm playing Obituary i roll it half off.

 

[profwoot]

Misha's sig guitars have the ideal tone knob where it's disconnected regularly but you can pull up to activate it.

I use my tone knobs occasionally while tuning to get it to recognize the fundamental faster, or for certain fuzz tones. I'd also use it for cleans, I suppose, if I weren't a fanatic for extremely bright cleans.

 

[Grindspine]

I almost never use it. It can actually annoy me sometimes if I am dialing in a tone with the amp or modeler and then I realize the tone knob is at less than full. I'll be swapping some pickups in a couple guitars soon and am seriously considering not even wiring up the tone pot.

Tone knob?...


OOHHHH yeah, that thing. ... nope.. nope, I don't use them.

I removed the tone pot from my USA B.C. Rich and covered the hole with a sticker. My RGDs don't have any silly extra knobs. On my import B.C. Rich Warlock, I converted the tone knob to a spin-a-split for the bridge pickup. I also did the spin-a-split conversion on a Washburn Dime. My Legator Ninja has no tone knob either. My BCR Virgin has an EMG SPC boost circuit in place of a tone.

At this point only my PRS guitars and one RG still have tone knobs, which go totally unused.

 

[4Eyes]

I have a custom built guitar, which was built with 1volume knob, because "metal" and I never missed it on that one.

however I have tone knobs on Eclipse with EMGs and RG with BKPs and I use it occasionally, more on low gain stuff, or if I want to play some leads which would otherwise sound shrill in the higher regions. Especially RG with tone knob is one of the most versatile guitars IMO, if only the volume pot wasn't placed in such stupid position close to the strings. Versatility of it is the only thing that prevents me from removing tone pot and moving volume to it's location on RG.

 

[Deadpool_25]

Ironically, I tend to wire in a resistor and capacitor to the volume control to make the guitar sound like there's a tone control turned all the way up since I've had issues with certain guitars and pickups sounding too spikey with only the tone circuit completely removed.

Wait. What now? What capacitor and resistor? I typically want a guitar to sound like the tone pot is all the way up, but sometimes they seem too bright with the tone pot completely out of the circuit (from listening to demos anyway).

 

[Sylim]

i never use the tone knob. i wired all my guitars to have two volume knobs, one for each pickup. in that way you can turn one off, keep the other one on, and then you can use the pickup switch like a kill switch. pretty useful for my circumstances.