replacing tone control

[cuzwilly]

thinking about replacing the tone control on my Will Ray tribute with a TBX anybody got any thoughts or advice

Cuzin Willy

[NickHorne]

That would work nice, Comanche style; would you use a dual-concentric pot for it? There's not really much room for three knobs (though it as been done).

What I have on my Will Ray is a pull-pot for the tone, which when it's pulled up gives me Bill Lawrence's Q-Filter circuit instead of regular cap-to-ground tone. I've had it on there for a few years, and I've gradually tweaked the components until I'm settled with it. It's not massively different, electrically, from a regular tone; easy to configure. I could draw up a schematic if you wanted, though not overnight as I'm moving house! It won't astonish anyone with any kind of radical novelty; however it does give a really sweet-strat alternative tone control that I'm fond of. It sucks the mids out, around 1kHz, and the way I have it is that it also softens the top end a little towards the bottom end of the pot's travel. I like that, and without that tweak, the Q-Filter can become too scooped and thin at the "0" end, almost a fake acoustic, which isn't much use for me.

[cuzwilly]

thanks i'll research the Q filter

[louis cyfer]

i like the villex passive midbooster. similar concept as the q filter, it's an inductor, but it goes the other way, boosts the mids.