Fender Stratocaster Tone Controls

Genuine fender stratocaster strat white control guitar knobs 2 tone 1 volume.

Fender stratocaster tone controls. My mim hss totally stock. I assume that many of us keep out tone on 10 because it gets too muddy below say 7 or 8. Let s list a few components and parts in the fender stratocaster that affect tone. Find a perfect guitar course for you.

This was the lead tone for western swing and back in the good old days of the fifties there was simply no need for a tone control for the bridge pickup. Since the stratocaster is fender s sole three pickup guitar its pickup switch has an important job to do. Fender american ultra stratocaster strat s 1 switching pots 5 switch guitar. With a lower value cap the roll off is much less overall which gives you more usable range.

There is no bridge pickup tone either in single coil switch position 2 or double coil switch position 1 mode. Fender stratocaster style controls and variations. Fender ultra stratocaster strat guitar knobs volume tone control aged white s 1. Https goo gl zjbdwx visit us on facebook.

79 99 5 00 shipping. 19 99 3 00 shipping. Master volume first tone is neck pickup tone second tone control is middle pickup tone. How to make the best out of your knobs on your stratocaster.

With three pickups the strat had a lot of potential sonic versatility right out of the box which wasn t entirely tapped with the three position switch originally used giving just each pickup individually. I ve been swapping out the tone caps on my guitars recently. In the last fifty four years tastes changed a lot and now few stratocaster players use the bridge pickup alone because the sound is too trebly and shrill to them. The pickup switch is the key to the stratocaster s time honored tonal versatility because it controls which pickups or which combinations of pickups are on at any given time.

The stratocaster has had maple necks since the very beginning. In 1964 the strat s 10th anniversary coincided with a change in cap value from 0 1uf to 0 047uf. This is a direct link to the control diagram for the mim standard fat strat.