I've always preferred one volume one tone on guitars and that's the way my strat is. The spare tone I used as a blend for Bridge and Neck pickups and quite liked it for a while, but to be honest I just never touch it now.
I'm just wondering if there is anything else I can do with it that is more interesting?
I have an S1 switch somewhere that I have never used. Are they any good? Also I'm pretty sure I have some kind of 'double pot' in a drawer that was for something or other (?)
I seem to recall that Guitar fetish sold mod boards to go into a guitar - anyone got experience of them?
Any other options?
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Disconnect it completely from the circuit. If you are asked to turn down, make a big thing of turning this knob anti-clockwise. Also works when people who know less than they think ask for ‘a bit more at 3.5k’ or whatever.
If that doesn’t sound useful I would get a new pickguard made with only two holes, which allows you to move the volume knob down slightly where it’s less of a total pain in the backside.
Don’t even think about an S1 - unreliable, noise-prone crap.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
So all 3, and a tele middle position.
I've got this on my G&L S-500. It's got fairly hot ceramic pickups in it, so it's helpful to be able to trim some bass off the neck pickup to get it back in to more "normal" Strat territory, or to make fuzzes sound less woolly.
I mean yes, obviously, a bass cut makes any sound brighter and thinner than it would be otherwise, but both of those (particularly "thin") are dirty words in the guitar tone lexicon, and potentially make a bass cut sound like a "make-worserer" knob.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
The S-1 switch is reliable in the sense that it is predictable that it is going to become unreliable in the short- to medium-term future.
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I have a (non-standard) rotary bass-cut control on my Rickenbacker bass too, it's very useful with fuzz which can otherwise just sound too mushy and overblown.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein