Axis vs Axis SS - tone control Q!

[spkirby]

With the recent thread about adding a dual concentric pot to an Axis to give it a tone control, I was wondering...

Can any of you who have an Axis and a Axis SS (both with Dimarzio HB's!) tell any difference between them soundwise with the tone on the SS wide open?

Trying to deduce what effect, if any, adding a tone pot in the circuit has on the overall guitars sound or "bite" as someone put it...

Finally anyone know if there exists a concentric pot with push pull? This would in theory add a tone control and a coil tap on the Axis' volume pot...

Thanks
StevenK

 

[Jimi D]

My Axis doesn't sound quite the same as my Axis SS, but I don't know if it's just the tone control - the SS is also a stoptail and has lower action. Anyway, I would imagine the difference with or without a tone control on any given guitar would be very, very slight...

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I took the tone knob out of my ASS, I found it muffled the sound a little compared to my Axis and EVH (all hard tails)

 

[beej]

Can any of you who have an Axis and a Axis SS (both with Dimarzio HB's!) tell any difference between them soundwise with the tone on the SS wide open?

Trying to deduce what effect, if any, adding a tone pot in the circuit has on the overall guitars sound or "bite" as someone put it...

Finally anyone know if there exists a concentric pot with push pull? This would in theory add a tone control and a coil tap on the Axis' volume pot...

I don't have both, but from the EB specs page, the Axis has a 500k vol pot while the Super Sport has 500k tone AND vol pots (making a total resistive load to the pickups of 250k).

If they have the same pickups, there should be a sound difference because of this. In theory, the Axis should be brighter. Even when the tone pot is wide open (where the tone capacitor has no effect) the pickups still see the constant load of the 500k pot. (Of course, there could be another resitor inside the cavity, etc.)

Haven't seen a dual concentric pot with a push/pull before. Unfortunately, I don't think there's one out there!

 

[tommyindelaware]

I don't have both, but from the EB specs page, the Axis has a 500k vol pot while the Super Sport has 500k tone AND vol pots (making a total resistive load to the pickups of 250k).

If they have the same pickups, there should be a sound difference because of this. In theory, the Axis should be brighter. Even when the tone pot is wide open (where the tone capacitor has no effect) the pickups still see the constant load of the 500k pot. (Of course, there could be another resitor inside the cavity, etc.)

Haven't seen a dual concentric pot with a push/pull before. Unfortunately, I don't think there's one out there!

allparts use to have a pan pot.......might be interesting.......

 

[thindave]

I took the tone knob out of my ASS(all hard tails)

Sorry, I just couldn't let that one go...

 

[lock-ny]

I actually have both and the axis is a brighter sounding better sustaining nastier sounding instrument, but all guitars sound different so who can really tell why they sound different -