Re: Tone control

[Toby Graves <carpet8@mac.com>]

There has to be some kind of capacitor, though.

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On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:18 AM, William Walker wrote:

> Most guitar manufacturers no matter how high end usually don't go  
> the extra mile by including capacitor circuits on the their tone  
> controls.  usually something like a.02 micro fared capacitor I seem  
> to recall, but I'll find out for sure.  Rolling off Hi end doesn't  
> have to be an all or none proposition. The guy who assembles my  
> electric guitars used to live and work in Austin for people like  
> Stevie Ray Vaughn and David Grissom, and knows all the tricks about  
> wiring. My tone controls attenuate a bit of high frequency without  
> muffling the sound. Playing technique can provide different shades  
> of bright and dark simply by moving closer to the neck and away  
> from the bridge, or using finger flesh rather than a pick, or using  
> a pick out of a more neutral material than plastic. I use dunlop  
> jazz 3 picks when playing with picks though these days i prefer my  
> fingers. The jazz threes are very neutral sounding.
>  As for flat wounds I'm glad there are people out there who like  
> and buy them, but I won't, for me playing on flat wounds is like  
> walking on ice, too slippery to really dig in to, and too rigid to  
> bend. BTW why is it that many trad jazz players don't bend strings  
> much? Seeing as there is a direct line between blues and jazz , is  
> it because the strings of choice are too hard to bend?   I tried  
> them for slide guitar thinking that the slickness would be an  
> advantage but I couldn't stand how dull they sounded.
> PS these where DAddario Chromes. I get a lot of life out of my  
> strings but thats because I'm very diligent about keeping my hands  
> clean before I play, and also wiping the strings down thoroughly  
> when I'm done. I like the feel and sound  of round wound strings,  
> and ultimately sound is more important to me than feel.
> Bill the contrarian
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