Post by 4real on Jan 1, 2013 20:50:29 GMT -5
I can't know if it 'is' but a lot of small manufacturer's 'spike forums' but hey, it's an honest enough representation (generally such 'spikes' start with 'im not affiliated', etc)... ...not that it necessarily 'is' mind...
Remember that the pots and all ahve been changed when installing the TS so there is a difference right there. A bit of a treble bleed will certainly make a difference when the volume is turned down. I actully removed one from my tele much prefering that the bright guitar is a little 'loaded' ( think it has 500k pots) and playing with the guitar down a 'touch' to take off the highs a bit, then there is room to turn up a bit and get a more cutting tone as required. Lets face it a lot of people don't really use their controls at all, but they likel should and choose 'settings' that work within this range of sounds there.
I'd like a clarification though...what is the effect of a tone control, esp the cap part, if the control is on 10?
A lot of people seem to make a big deal over 'caps' (even spending fortunes on mojo vintage caps and such) as if the word 'tone' on the knob imparts...errr..."tone". Many times I suspect, like most players including me, the tone control is hardly if ever used!
I quite liked EVH's single vol with the knob replaces as 'tone' as you do get a big range of sounds with the volumc control, especially if you play very loud...your ear has some natural compression at high volumes...and there are other effects.
Personally, I like my gutiars to be 'clean' and unfussy and when there is a lot of 'options' and the main ones available as default. Hence the MR scheme in default on the five way goves exactly 'what I want'...
n, n+m, n+b, m+b, b on the selector.
Various other 'schemes' offer soimilar or more 'opitions such as a blend control for the neck in other positions, this can provide variation through a graduated control and such, but inclined myself to find that a little 'fiddly' generally...though it achieves a similar result.
How far one might want to go though, hard to say and depends a lot on the interface that one might use. Perhaps Col has hit on simething 'special' but not necessaruly going to suit all. I'm not sure I've actually heard some of these more obscure series/parallel pup combos, I suspect that in one guitar a lot of them are going to sound remarkably similar or perhaps not that useful. There may well be 'jumps' in the level of different selections and require a complicated arrangment of phase and combo to get 'just that sound' if going for 47 phased combos.
Some here say yes, all good for a 'recording guitar' and such, which has some merit...my strats 'extra' options may well be good for that. Though, many of us will also have other gutiars, so it might be even more effective to change guitars than to expect everything out of one and the same set of pups.
Still, if the interface is such that the 'top 5' does not get compromised by other less usefuol sonds, there is that kind of thing.
I could imagine perhaps a rotary selector that might do something quite adventurous with a super swith maybe...so a standard moe switching through 3 or 4 other modes of selection.
Though everything is going to be a 'compromise'. JB makes great use of the dual tone system, by haveing a master tone, mine can't. Some really like the middle pup, mine cant do that. Some will be concerned about rwrp positions, I cheated by uning noiseless pups I guess...A variable control can be really coool, harder to switch directly though, if clever it can be fine as well.
If one does not care overly for a 'no-mod' option, well there is a lot to be said for mini toggles for their tactle and visual indication and there have been some cool uses of such things on here...
Remember that the pots and all ahve been changed when installing the TS so there is a difference right there. A bit of a treble bleed will certainly make a difference when the volume is turned down. I actully removed one from my tele much prefering that the bright guitar is a little 'loaded' ( think it has 500k pots) and playing with the guitar down a 'touch' to take off the highs a bit, then there is room to turn up a bit and get a more cutting tone as required. Lets face it a lot of people don't really use their controls at all, but they likel should and choose 'settings' that work within this range of sounds there.
I'd like a clarification though...what is the effect of a tone control, esp the cap part, if the control is on 10?
A lot of people seem to make a big deal over 'caps' (even spending fortunes on mojo vintage caps and such) as if the word 'tone' on the knob imparts...errr..."tone". Many times I suspect, like most players including me, the tone control is hardly if ever used!
I quite liked EVH's single vol with the knob replaces as 'tone' as you do get a big range of sounds with the volumc control, especially if you play very loud...your ear has some natural compression at high volumes...and there are other effects.
Personally, I like my gutiars to be 'clean' and unfussy and when there is a lot of 'options' and the main ones available as default. Hence the MR scheme in default on the five way goves exactly 'what I want'...
n, n+m, n+b, m+b, b on the selector.
Various other 'schemes' offer soimilar or more 'opitions such as a blend control for the neck in other positions, this can provide variation through a graduated control and such, but inclined myself to find that a little 'fiddly' generally...though it achieves a similar result.
How far one might want to go though, hard to say and depends a lot on the interface that one might use. Perhaps Col has hit on simething 'special' but not necessaruly going to suit all. I'm not sure I've actually heard some of these more obscure series/parallel pup combos, I suspect that in one guitar a lot of them are going to sound remarkably similar or perhaps not that useful. There may well be 'jumps' in the level of different selections and require a complicated arrangment of phase and combo to get 'just that sound' if going for 47 phased combos.
Some here say yes, all good for a 'recording guitar' and such, which has some merit...my strats 'extra' options may well be good for that. Though, many of us will also have other gutiars, so it might be even more effective to change guitars than to expect everything out of one and the same set of pups.
Still, if the interface is such that the 'top 5' does not get compromised by other less usefuol sonds, there is that kind of thing.
I could imagine perhaps a rotary selector that might do something quite adventurous with a super swith maybe...so a standard moe switching through 3 or 4 other modes of selection.
Though everything is going to be a 'compromise'. JB makes great use of the dual tone system, by haveing a master tone, mine can't. Some really like the middle pup, mine cant do that. Some will be concerned about rwrp positions, I cheated by uning noiseless pups I guess...A variable control can be really coool, harder to switch directly though, if clever it can be fine as well.
If one does not care overly for a 'no-mod' option, well there is a lot to be said for mini toggles for their tactle and visual indication and there have been some cool uses of such things on here...