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Food for thought on using your guitar volume & tone controls the old-school way

Welcome to the show! We are delighted to be joined by our lovely friend Simon Jarrett, head boy at the school of St Kingsley Amplifiers. Via the heraldic titles and ruling tube pedals, Simon has forged a stellar reputation among guitarists and tone fans, not least because of the incredible touch and feel in his playing… which is exactly what we’re discussing today.
Be warned, you’re going to have to concentrate during this video. In true TPS style, it gets a little bit techy and discursive today, hammering home our old mantra: There are no answers, only better questions.

Nevertheless, we’re here to discuss tone caps, volume controls, modern vs 50s wiring and all that stuff that helps determine how the guitar reacts when you use the controls for clean-up. Treble bleeds, pedals… all that stuff.

Enjoy the show!

Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
• Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner
• Kingsley Scullion
• Kingsley Rogue
• Marshall Blues Breaker
• J Rockett HRM
• Source Audio Collider
• TheGigRig AB Baby

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Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing
2:25 Why use the guitar controls?
4:50 Dynamic range vs high sensitivity
9:30 Modern or 50s wiring?
12:30 Start with tone and volume lower?
13:00 50s wiring in a pedal?
15:50 Adding an overdrive, but cleaning up
17:00 Using a volume pedal to bring level back
20:20 Dan has a go
26:00 Changing the tone cap value
28:45 Ooof, resonant peaks and impedance?
30:15 Dan hates the tone control
32:45 Mick’s neck pickup problem
36:55 Different tone cap on the ES-345
38:23 Why not a treble bleed?
39:04 Mick getting clearer neck tones
42:09 Dan experimenting with caps
44:15 A summary so far
47:00 It really is counter-intuitive
48:50 Does Simon wire Strats 50s?
50:10 More tone cap conkers with Dan
52:40 A simple conclusion?
56:55 The Rogue Valve Fuzz intro
58:45 Rogue Valve Fuzz sounds
1:02:00 The Eunuch?
1:03:30 Why the hell did I watch that?
1:04:50 Dan, still fearing turning down
1:07:00 More on treble bleeds
1:10:10 Simon plays us out

Guitars in today’s show
• Fender Custom Shop ’62 Relic Stratocaster - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMHUQeHGRQ&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow
• 1962 Gibson Les Paul (SG) - no specific video yet
• 1965 Gibson ES-345 TDS - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdYvdn7vDDE&ab_channel=ThatPedalShow

Amps in today’s show
• Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb with Jensen C-12K speaker
• Marshall 1987x and Browne custom 212 with 1 x Celestion G12-65 and 1 x WGS ET65

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