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(I'm a wimp and I have to have a Special with a neck pickup..)
Interesting that. It's a shame most of us have become too reliant on pedals.
They are easier though.
I occaisionally use a Bad Monkey for a lead boost, but that's pretty rare as I'm terrible at lead playing.
I'd also say that picking dynamics are hugely important- if there's one thing I try to carry over from my days as an acoustic player it's getting different sounds by attacking the strings or playing gently, pick or no pick, playing at the bridge or up towards the fretboard. It all makes a difference- I noticed Joe goes to finger picking when he wants a smoother tone.
There's another good video on this somewhere I'll have a look for it.
Edit: here it is. 2.30 is where he demonstrates the controls
As soon as i'm off these strong meds and i can function properly, i'm fitting the two extra pots to have independent vol and tone for each pickup, it's that important on this guitar.
I had an old partscaster that I made into a single pickup - I wanted something different so I went single neck.
I haven't really played it much since I finished it, but I went super paired back - think it's time to dig it out.
Generally, I'd be quite happy with no tone controls.
I absolutely hate the mushy cloying 'woman tone'. Almost as much as I hate chorus pedals.
Specially if you have neck and bridge - the blends can be really good and you can get a totally different sound (usable). Agree about humbuckers tho
Yes I did go through a pedal stage because lets be honest PEDALS LOOK COOL! But I'm out the other side of that and curiosity has got me thinking about doing more with less.
I'd guess most people stay at 'all on ten' for a while as when your playing sounds s$%t who cares what a tone knob does
NEW! Joe Bonamassa fingers...
On bass I use Tone pots as sometimes less highs at source is helpful, though they're no load pots so on 10 they're essentially off. The Fender 250k no load pots have a click for full up which I think is useful, I'm not aware of equivalent 500k pots