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Post by Rockerfeller on Aug 4, 2019 6:13:04 GMT -7
I know most people change the rotary knob when they change guitar type, but I've been using it with tele's and changing it for different pick ups. Live, I play Tele's exclusively. The thing about Tele's is that to get a great rock bridge tone, sometimes your neck pickup tone can be too bass heavy and vice versa. Over the years, like many other Tele players, I've learned the secret of getting them to all sound great by using the tone knob on the gitfiddle.
Enter the DB4 and her rotary tone knob. If I'm going to be playing dirty rock on the Bridge pup, I just turn it all the way right, to 5, and it sounds perfect. It gets rid of everything that you associate with being bad about a Tele bridge pup (the ice pick highs) and accents everything you love about it! If I'm playing exclusively on the neck pup, for songs like Sweet Child of Mine, I've been setting it at 3. That setting takes away all the things we think sound bad and accents everything you love about it. I set it on 4 most of the night, which gives me the classic way of controlling the tone with my tone knob. I'm probably switching it 6 or 7 times in 3 sets. It feels like cheating, but it's so easy and quick to get the ideal tone.
Does anybody else use it this way live?
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Post by bryan0418 on Aug 4, 2019 7:42:46 GMT -7
I usually set the rotary based on the guitar. I rarely use the neck pickup. With a humbucker guitar I set the rotary to 3 or 4. And for a tele 4 or 5. I like your idea tho. I will give it a try.
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