Oh Happy Day!

[sixstringsamurai]

all you Gear nerds will understand my elation,
I have been struggling with finding "My Tone" ever since I got my Marshall Plexi, they are finicky beasts, so I have learned...
After many pedal / Pickup swaps,
Today, it all came down to one final tweak....
Rolling off the Vol. pot on the guitar 10%.....
This now also eliminates the need for a lead booster as well!

So Stoked!

 

[Cagey]

Well, congrats!

I wanna say "DUH!!!", but I can understand if you didn't have the proper amp/pickup combination in the past, that little trick may not have been available to you so it may never have occurred to you to try it, or even to stumble upon it through experimentation. Depending on the gear, it doesn't always work.

 

[mayfly]

Yep, it seems so obvious, and there are a bunch of guitars out there that it does not work on.  But it's a good trick if you have a good pickup and amp.  I've also found that backing off on the tone control juuuuust a bit can make a big difference as well.  Especially on a telecaster. 

Confession time:  On my AxeFX the only difference between my "loud screaming lead" sound and my "quiet rhythm sound" is that the quiet rhythm sound has a 'volume' model in front of everything with the volume turned down to 10%  :icon_biggrin:. 

 

[Re-Pete]

I'm not one who's capable of berating you...... It's taken me years to finally figure out that actually USING the volume & tone knobs on the guitar makes a variety of nuances to the main tone from the guitar!

Like many, I've used a barrage of pedals, gone down the route of blaming the guitar, swapping out pickups etc. only to find the tone I wanted by rolling off the tone a fraction and setting the volume lower so I can flip it up to full bore if I need to. On 18v active pickup systems that works very well because of the dynamic headroom. But on very good clean pickups, through good toleranced pots, yes, the tonal effect is just as good.

It was while playing around with EMGs, that I found a use for the tone knobs and then back to the other (passive) guitars and found similar good results. Talk about a *D'OH* moment  :doh: .

And I'm guessing that my previous crappy tone on Marshall 1959 & 1987X amp sims has been due to my stupidity in not looking at the guitar controls too.  :rock-on: