Speaking of Tone Heaven
Too Long in the Wasteland
If you can't find your tone with these many knobs you never will ..
http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/airline-3P/images/airline3P-big/airline3PDLXwhite.jpg
boardjunkie
> If you can't find your tone with these many knobs you never will ..
>
Looks to be just a dedicated vol/tone for each p-up and a master vol
at the bottom. No big deal. Good tone ain't about more knobs/more p-
ups anyway....
jtees4
Wow, that is a few knobs! Reminds me of an old Hagstrom I had, but
they were the little slide switches, not knobs....and they never
seemed to do much anyway.
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RichL
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http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/airline-3P/images/airline3P-big/airline3PDLXwhite.jpg
All that hardware and still limited to the Strat set of pickup
selections. What a waste.
p.s...I thought I saw Billy Gibbons playing one of those the other night
on TV.
Master Betty
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Nah...it's proven. More knobs = more tone.
WB
> Good tone ain't about more knobs
oh yeah ?
http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/2/5/6/637256.jpg
Rufus
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> If you can't find your tone with these many knobs you never will ..
>
>
> http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/airline-3P/images/airline3P-big/airline3PDLXwhite.jpg
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...that's what Jack White seems to think...
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- Rufus
Rufus
...more knobs = more tone knobs...
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- Rufus
RichL
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:59:31 -0500, "RichL" <rple...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Too Long in the Wasteland <t...@log.com> wrote:
>>> If you can't find your tone with these many knobs you never will ..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/airline-3P/images/airline3P-big/airline3PDLXwhite.jpg
>>
>> All that hardware and still limited to the Strat set of pickup
>> selections. What a waste.
>
> volume at the bottom. I can see how some tweakers would find that
> useful.
Maybe, but still you can't get bridge + neck pickups together or all
three.
> Or maybe the theory is similar to Bill Cosby's Philco radio with 400
> knobs. Only one knob actually did anything - the rest were extras in
> case that knob broke.
Heh...that line was at the beginning of "The Chicken Heart", one of my
favorite Cosby routines.
jtees4
I've passed on a few amps simply because they had double rows of
knobs...just don't like it.
Restless Fingers Syndrome
> ...that's what Jack White seems to think...
>
I'll take promo gear any day ...
Mark Bedingfield
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:48:00 -0600, WB <nos...@no.com> wrote:
>
>> boardjunkie wrote:
>>> Good tone ain't about more knobs
>> oh yeah ?
>>
>> http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/2/5/6/637256.jpg
>
> I've passed on a few amps simply because they had double rows of
> knobs...just don't like it.
>
For sure, the simpler the better IMO. The Epi VJ is the epitome of that,
just one knob. Like its master. ;-)
Mark
Too Long in the Wasteland
> All that hardware and still limited to the Strat set of pickup
> selections. What a waste.
>
IMO .. The intent is to "blend" the PU's with the volume setting of
each .. add a P/P phase switch and split coils ...
I can barely keep track of 2 knobs ... 7 .. no way, but the *cool*
factor is beyond measurement.
> Billy Gibbons playing
>
a Gretsch ..
jtees4
I agree, but I also have to admit...I had an Epi VJ combo....and I
missed the tone knobs as well as a reverb. So I guess I need at least
three knobs on an amp to be really happy. Guitars is another story, it
depends on the guitar. I have one that i modded to have zero knobs,
and I'm fine with it.
Les Cargill
>
> If you can't find your tone with these many knobs you never will ..
>
>
> http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/GTRs/airline-3P/images/airline3P-big/airline3PDLXwhite.jpg
>
More Knobs = Less Tone.
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Les Cargill
RichL
>> All that hardware and still limited to the Strat set of pickup
>> selections. What a waste.
>>
>
> IMO .. The intent is to "blend" the PU's with the volume setting of
> each .. add a P/P phase switch and split coils ...
> I can barely keep track of 2 knobs ... 7 .. no way, but the *cool*
> factor is beyond measurement.
But that selector switch -- does it even allow you to have all three
pickups on at once so you *can* blend 'em?
>> Billy Gibbons playing
>>
>
> a Gretsch ..
Heh...you're right (just googled it). You gotta admit, there are
certain similarities!
Mark Bedingfield
I'll confess to using a Graphic Eq with my epi, but I could just have
easily used a treble booster or get around to installing that damned
bright switch.
I don't use guitar tone controls a lot as a like them as clean as
possible mostly. Sometimes I tweak the neck pup tone a little. What I do
like is middle and neck with tone down on the neck pup, on a Strat. Very
tasty.
Mark
JB
That depends. Are they vintage knobs with lots of mojo, or cheap
imitation "re-issues"?
Rufus
...but those vintage knobs aren't true bypass...
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- Rufus
JB
Mod them.
It's well worth it. Vintage knobs are more dense and thus resonate
better.
Rufus
...that's only because the new ones are chambered. That's supposed to
make them sound "vintage", but I don't think purists are buying it.
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- Rufus
Stephen Cowell
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That ain't nothin'... you haven't seen the new JXX Super Duper?
WB
>> oh yeah ?
>>
>> http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/2/5/6/637256.jpg
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> That ain't nothin'... you haven't seen the new JXX Super Duper?
>
> http://www.dropshots.com/zoom.html?large=http://media8.dropshots.com/photos/500927/20091220/b_231953.jpg
>
Useless .. what where they thinking ... IT HAS NO TREMOLO !!!!!
jtees4
At least they are not Epiphone or MIM Fender knobs.
Stephen Cowell
"WB" <sp...@there.com> wrote in message
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But it *does* have *ten* treble knobs.
I need that in an amp.
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Steve
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Too Long in the Wasteland
>
> But that selector switch -- does it even allow you to have all three
> pickups on at once so you *can* blend 'em?
The *cool* factor over rides that limitation.
Wrong_Note_Rod
yowza! thats almost as bad as my old Boogie Mk4.
i think it was Johnny winter who said, they ruined the Fender Twin when
they put a midrange knob on it.
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WB
>> Useless .. what where they thinking ... IT HAS NO TREMOLO !!!!!
>
> But it *does* have *ten* treble knobs.
>
> I need that in an amp.
>
Rufus
...one does have to be weary of counterfeits.
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- Rufus