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Originally Posted by MetalWarrior
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Originally Posted by Scott of Actual Time
you mean to increase the high end a little bit? the TBX is a neat device, but the only way it increases the high end is to effectively remove the tone control from the circuit when it's turned all the way up [all tone controls suck off a tiny bit of highs even when cranked].
you're wrong on this part.
no, i'm not.
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Originally Posted by MetalWarrior
the TBX, being a passive control, can only cut frequencies.
that is correct, and that's why i said that the tiny increase in highs is due to the tone circuit being removed, not due to any sort of boost. i even cut out the word 'boost' so no one would think i was talking about an active component.
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Originally Posted by MetalWarrior
what it does is when you turn it one way, it cuts treble, like a normal tone knob. when you turn it the other way, it cuts bass. this is NOT the same as taking it out of the circuit. in the middle is a small notch where it's effectively taken out of the circuit completely, the same as if you desoldered it (which i normally do anyway).
you must be thinking about something else. the detent in the TBX is the point where it acts like a standard tone knob turned all the way up. turning down cuts the treble, but turning up uses the ganged pot [Drew, i think it's 1 Megaohm] to make the resistance so high that the tone control is effectively removed.
Fender did replace the TBX with a different name and new design in the late 90s at some point -- perhaps you're thinking of that. i don't remember anything about that other design except that it was quite different, so maybe that's the pot that cuts treble one way and bass the other.
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Originally Posted by frankfalbo
but generally the lows and low mids thicken as you get the pickup closer to the strings. That's why pulling Tone Zones down relieves some of the low end pressure.
interesting. i recently put a TZ7 in one of my 7620s and it was painfully shrill on the high end. i lowered it down a lot and it softened a bit, but i wasn't paying much attention to changes in the low end, just trying to ease the icepick-in-the-ear.
i was surprised the TZ7 didn't sound very good in the 7620, after the many jemsite recommendations. it may be that my amps are all tweaked bright for my 2027/TZ7 and 540S7/Duncan Custom.