If all of this sounds too scary to do on your own, every good guitar tech knows how to do this ridiculously simple modification. Which pickup/s does each tone knob control? If you’re new to the Stratocaster guitar, you’re bound to wonder about the workings of its pickup selector switch.. It was recorded using … Crackling controls. The bridge pickup is "always on 10" no matter what you do with either tone knob. Home Forums > Other Discussion Forums > Tech-Talk > AO 50’s Strat Tone Knob No Sound Discussion in 'Tech-Talk' started by h4ck.b0x7, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:30 PM. On the majority of Stratocaster guitars whether made by Fender or by Squier, when you select the bridge pickup alone, neither of the tone controls affect the sound. Today I pluged it into the amp and was messing with the tone knobs and realized that they literally didn't work. 2. Just a friendly reminder that political discussion, (including "offhand" and 'sideways' commenting) is. The potentiometer (or “pot”) leaks high end frequencies to ground relative to its value. What Leo wanted with the Stratocaster is a pickup position that sounded similar to a steel guitar; something that really, really stood out with a somewhat piercing and shrill sound (typical for pedal steel guitars of the time). (If you’re curious about that mod, check out “The 7-Sound Stratocaster.”)This month we’ll investigate an even cooler version of the 7-sound mod. All it takes to get tone control on the bridge-alone setting it to solder a very small wire between two terminals. So having now gigged my new strat with it's tone control now working and attached to the bridge pickup I've come to the conclusion that this is a bloomin marvellous idea. At point of sale we agreed to rectify all the items. Create a username and password below and an account will be created and your post entered. Learn more. Still not resolved and its 7 weeks on. The other side connects your master volume and two tone controls (blue is Tone 1 above and red is Tone 2). 0.1 µF. You're about to find out. Squier Strat SE - Tone controls not working Discussion in 'Squier Stratocasters' started by HSquier, Jul 29, 2020. The pickup switch is the key to the Stratocaster’s time-honored tonal versatility, because it controls which pickups or which combinations of pickups are on at any given time. Fig.1 — Schematic courtesy singlecoil.com Many moons ago, I showed you how to coax seven sounds from a standard Stratocaster, rather than the five that are available with Fender’s stock 5-way switch. In the photo above, you see four terminals on top and four on the bottom (one is hidden from view on the bottom, but trust me, it's there). There have been several models of Stratocasters over the years that do in fact use the Tone 2 knob (the one near the bottom of the guitar) to affect the bridge-only pickup selection. In a diagram view, the terminals look like this (and I have one part circled for a reason): One side of the switch is wired to connect the pickups. It’s been my dream car for as long as I can remember and although it was a bit more than I had wanted to spend (I was originally looking at a Volvo just to fit the dog in), once I saw it I realised I had to have it. Age: 23 1. A lot of people think of the TBX tone control as a treble boost, but that’s not quite accurate. As with so many things in the guitar world, the vast majority of control and switching layouts used today follow what was employed by one or another classic make and model dating back to the ’50s and ’60s. No. Without capacitors, you don't have tone controls. 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