Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Adding a tone pot to a #metal orientated guitar with only a volume pot/knob and a pickup selector switch

Now what's actually happening when you're adding a tone pot to a guitar which only has a volume pot ? how does it affect the guitar sound and electronics

A fairly popular configuration is a single 500k volume pot and a selector switch, (like on my RGD) in my case I found that there was a bit too much of a push or peak in some areas, which lead me down this rabbit hole of pot values and here adding a tone pot, different values especially in a passive circuit make a difference be it 250k , 500k , 1meg etc.. and don't get my started on the value of the tone cap =) but that's a whole other discussion

This is something I did recently on my Ibanez RGD and I'm really happy i did, so here's a before and after , tone comparisons with all sorts of nerdy details

Amp tone is :
TSE 808 as a boost
Neural Amp Modeller with the TimR QR15 capture
ML Sound Lab Damon 60 57a IR

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TIME STAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:31 Resonant peaks
02:32 DI comparisons
03:44 Comparisons with High Gain
05:17 Focused comparison with EQ
05:51 Thoughts
06:55 Quick comparison with High gain
07:20 Final thoughts

#guitar #metal