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Fender TBX Tone Control
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 12:11 am
by metalhead384
Tomorrow I am planning on going to Guitar Center and buying a TBX Tone Control, for my Fender 72 Thinline RI, because the tone control in it died. Other than Scott Groove, who has had good expierences with it, or bad expierences. Anything would be apraciated.
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 1:43 pm
by Dave
I had one in my old strat - was good! I didn't really know what one was though back then - guitar came ready modded
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 2:37 pm
by willlin
Am I right in thinking this is the jobby that's in the Clapton Strat?
Does it do a treble or bass boost/ cut depending which way it's rotated? Always fancied trying one out, though I never touch the tone controls on my Strat currently.
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:00 pm
by Jaded
I had one in a Strat plus. From my understanding the notch in the middle on the pots sweep is the same as a regular 250k pot at 10, turning it down it'll act like a normal tone pot but turning it up boosts the bass and treble frequencies.
Edit:
Apparently it's not quite what i thought it was
LINKY!
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 6:22 pm
by NickS
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:35 pm
by Doog
The Contemporary Telecaster I used to own featured one, I just used to leave it wide open and forget about it :/
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:58 pm
by Mages
by wide open you mean carefully set in the middle then?
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:12 pm
by Mages
oh I see what it does. it's like a normal tone control in one direction and like the volume knob on a jaguar (from 250k ohms to 1m ohms) in the other. so you could actually leave it "wide open" it would just be like playing a guitar with 1 meg pots.
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:22 pm
by Jaded
Yeah thats my understanding of it. Worked quite well on the strat, i'd stick it in the middle the turn it up a little to where it sounded similar to my jags.
...thinking about it that could be really sweet on a 3-pup Jag! All your traditional Jag sounds plus a close approximation of strat tones (even compensate for the "darker" short scale a bit). I can see my sunburst jag ending up like this now
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:10 pm
by Doog
Mages wrote:by wide open you mean carefully set in the middle then?
Wide open in terms of the pot's travel, like. So "boosting" the highs and lows. I can honestly say, I never noticed a boost in
low end from the centre notch to
ALL THE WAY UP.
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:29 pm
by Jaded
Doog wrote:I never noticed a boost in low end from the centre notch to ALL THE WAY UP.
I never did either, i just remembered someone saying that in a video regarding the TBX. I just assumed their must have been and said it. I guess it wouldn't really make much sense either if it's essentially switching from a 250k to a 1meg pot.
Regardless they really are quite useful, more so than your usual tone pots.