#TEISCO GUITAR TWO TONE POT WIRING MOD#

YouвЂ™re hearing it through an analog rig, obviously, but I want to find out whether that extra shot of highs does anything meaningful when playing digitally. IвЂ™m going to keep this one around for awhile. ItвЂ™s a super-easy install, at least to the extent that any job that requires removing both strings and pickguard can be easy.And hereвЂ™s how it sounds: Since I hadnвЂ™t gotten around to replacing it with the smooth-action version, I figured IвЂ™d try the TBX.ДЄnd IвЂ™m glad I did. I dig it, but itвЂ™s the old model which clicks, rather than fades, from setting to setting, and it requires a powerful twist of the wrist to go from maximum to minumum, which I do every time I grab an EBow. IвЂ™d been using a Stellartone Tone Styler, a cool Vari-Tone variant that switches between multiple capacitors. I put it into the mongrel strat IвЂ™ve been using as my digital synth/looping guitar.

But itвЂ™s cheap: You can find the TBX kit, with the pot, hardware, and passive components, online for about $15.

#TEISCO GUITAR TWO TONE POT WIRING MOD#

IвЂ™ll try his mod when I restring, and IвЂ™ll update you here.)Д«TW, you need the Fender TBX kit for this project - it uses highly customized pots to work its magic, and a standard stacked pot wonвЂ™t do. Man, I have some catching up to do!) He makes a good case for replacing the stock resistor with another value, but I went with the original 82K to establish a point of reference. (And he goes way beyond in this subsequent article on TBX mods. Dirk Wacker, my now-colleague at Premier Guitar, dissects the circuit far more capably than I can here. Technically, itвЂ™s not a boost, but it sure feels like one. 022uF.) But when you rotate clockwise, the absence of lows makes glassy highs erupt. (You could вЂњtuneвЂќ the roll-off frequency with various capacitors, though I went with the stock. Turn it counter-clockwise and highs vanish, per usual. Set here, itвЂ™s like a regular tone control, wide-open. IвЂ™m agog at how well it works with humbuckers - you can get so many cool sounds by rolling off lows on the way to a fuzz, as heard here.Д«ut TBX (it stand for вЂњtreble bass expanderвЂќ) is a one-knob circuit, tbough that single knob rotates two stacked pots. The PTB is a two-knob circuit that lets you siphon off highs, lows, or both. Like the G&L PTB circuit IвЂ™m so apeshit about, itвЂ™s a 2-band passive tone control - but one that sounds very different. Like this one, which IвЂ™ve been meaning to explore for ages: the Fender TBX tone control circuit, which appears in several Custom Shop instruments, notably the Clapton signature Strats. I got tons of great ideas from your comments. Thanks again to everyone who chimed in on the вЂњWhat your favorite mod?вЂќ discussion. I'm not sure if using a switch to turn off a pickup would resolve this(?).You can TELL itвЂ™s Photoshopped! ThereвЂ™s no TBX! Now I'm not sure about this plan as I just recently found out that this wiring scheme often results in some tone issues. Though I'm not sure how I would wire the two on/off sliders (they are DPDT). So, essentially wire it like a Jazz Bass. it's odd.ДЄnyways, I was initially thinking of wiring it with each slider as an on/off for each pickup, master tone, and then separate volume for each pickup. I'm not exactly clear on how the two tone pots work, because they both behave differently depending on what pickup is selected. As far as I can tell, the top slider shuts off all the electronics, the bottom one switches between the neck and bridge pups. The guitar has two 2-position sliders, a volume knob, and two tone knobs. It is the 26931, from the late 60s/early 70s. I picked up a vintage silvertone I am going to clean up, and re-wire.

Teisco guitar two tone pot wiring