Pr3Va1L Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 I saw Crate's VTX amps have a kinda 'tone' control called shape for their lead channel, instead of 3 band EQ. Their description of what it does is this: Rotating the control counterclockwise enhances the mid frequencies, while rotating the control clockwise enhances the low and high frequencies. Would there be any way of implempting that into a guitar? I'm thinking that would be a pretty cool thing. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord-of-the-strings Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 I'm pretty sure that's what the emg guitar expander pot does, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unusual71 Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 correct. david gilmour uses one (amoung others im sure) and yes theres one thats like that and another that simply boosts mids (also by emg) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Fender TBX too!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeAArthur Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Crate's "shape" control is essentially the same implementation as Marshall's "contour" control on their ValveState amps. Here is a PDF of the schematic for the Crate VC508 which uses this same implementation as it's "tone" control so you can see how it's wired: http://www.stlouismusic.com/downloads/divi...08/25101H2_.PDF It wouldn't be a good choice for a guitar tone control unless you also install a preamp - the insertion loss of of this circuit would result in a loss of volume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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