jadaxis
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This may be a redundant question to those who frequent this forum, but why doesn't the axis guitars have a tone control for the pickups?
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Tone control
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heavymetaljames
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What's a tone control?
beej
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Not exactly sure why, but the Axis was a successor to the EVH which only had a volume control, so likely they just kept the same specs for the same market.
The Sport and Super Sport then came out "sporting" additional configurations.
The Sport and Super Sport then came out "sporting" additional configurations.
Smellybum
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it's such a widely tonal guitar it doesn't need one.
Tim O'Sullivan
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Its totally not needed. I had the tone pot taken off my ASS. You use the volume as a tone.
Roubster
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I personally think that some of you guys just cant HANDLE 2 knobs ! I use volume and tone knobs all the time, and on the Luke they work so perfectly. Cant wait for the 20th Silo.
! I use volume and tone knobs all the time, and on the Luke they work so perfectly. Cant wait for the 20th Silo.J_Alexander
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as once said volume is tone. how true that is at least to my ears.
KungFu Grip
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I use my tone controls on my Albert Lee all the time, but not so much with the humbuckers on my Steve Morse. I think they're much more effective with single coils than buckers.
Warg Master
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I don't use tone controls much....though it does depend on the gutiar.....
pack-rat
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Tone can be found in the fingertips too
beej
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I've never been a big fan of the tone control- often wired it up to control something else.
That is, until I started watching Steve Morse work the tone control. What a technique! Who needs a wah pedal when you can work the tone control like that
That is, until I started watching Steve Morse work the tone control. What a technique! Who needs a wah pedal when you can work the tone control like that
fbecir
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beej said:That is, until I started watching Steve Morse work the tone control. What a technique! Who needs a wah pedal when you can work the tone control like that
How true ...
Steve is always using his pinky (changing the pickups, the volume, the tone).
A good example is in the video with Living Loud, during the song Every Moment A Lifetime (for me the best song of the album).
Even if you don't use the tone control, it doesn't hurt you to have one. And perhaps one day, it will save your skin (try to have a jazzy sound for instance ...)
Hasta luego
