True or false: A guitar with no tone knob sends a stronger signal to your amp, and gives your amp's eq more to work with.
Yes because even when the tone knob is all the way off a tiny amount of signal is bleed to ground mostly high end. You will get a really shrill sounding guitar if you eliminate the tone control.
None of my guitars have tone knobs. What makes a tone knob a tone knob is the capacitor on it. The only time it effects anything is if it isnt on 10. It wont be a noticable amount more signal, but it is realistically 0-250k(or 500k) less resistance in the circuit. I take all of mine out for simplicity. Less shit to break and replace. Fuck switches, too.
Yes. Because no matter where the knob is set it's still an extra 250K or 500K, across the pickups, loading them down. Likewise you could also remove your volume knob for the same reason.
Keep in mind, most pickups are designed to compensate for both volume and tone pots/caps in the signal. Removing or altering the resistance will affect the tone – and not necessarily for the better.
Quote from: Jake on February 17, 2011, 09:46:56 AM
Keep in mind, most pickups are designed to compensate for both volume and tone pots/caps in the signal. Removing or altering the resistance will affect the tone – and not necessarily for the better.
while that may be true, i've never come across an instance where any discernable tone difference couldn't be taken care of with a bit of eq-ing.
I rewired my Paul Stanley Iceman's tone control (2 vol/1 tone) to only affect the neck pickup. I have never in my life used a tone control for a bridge pickup, but roll back the neck for a "woman tone". Hell, the damn knob broke off anyway when it took a spill in my garage the day I brought it home in 1996. Only replaced the knob when I realized I could use the tone for only the neck PU.
The guitar sounds great w/o no bridge tone control. A single master tone knob is retarded for my uses.
Neil Young has no tone or volume control.
You can use one of these , it "clicks" at Ten, taking the tone pot out of the circuit.
I bought one and never got around to installing it.
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/product/CPFNL11/Original-Fender-No-Load-Guitar-Tone-Pot-Split-Shaft.html (http://www.guitarelectronics.com/product/CPFNL11/Original-Fender-No-Load-Guitar-Tone-Pot-Split-Shaft.html)