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Post subject: Grease bucket tone circuit
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:03 pm
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Hi Fender people. I am new to this or any forum. Trying to find out if anyone has or heard a grease bucket tone circuit. Any info good or bad.


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Post subject: Re: Grease bucket tone circuit
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:15 pm
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jburdog wrote:
Hi Fender people. I am new to this or any forum. Trying to find out if anyone has or heard a grease bucket tone circuit. Any info good or bad.


Welcome.

I know this is somewhat of a politicians answer but: Many love it, many hate it. Personally, I think it is a waste. YMMV.

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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:57 pm
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I have it on my highway one. and i love it.

it really shows itself in the 2 and 4 position with a little bit of distortion, and the tone knobs rolled back to about 5...

Sweet sounds..

and i also like rolling off the neck pickup for a slightly "smoother" sound.

But its not like i would ever install it on another guitar, i like it... but its more of a unique model type thing to me.

Its nice to have at least one guitar with a greasebucket. or at least some interesting tone configuration.


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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:06 pm
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I had one on my late 2006 Highway 1, I removed it.

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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:56 pm
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I own two Custom Shop Strat Pro's with the Greasebucket circuit and samarium cobalt noiseless pickups. For my tastes this is the best electronics package I've used in a three pickup single coil guitar. The tone controls on these guitars do exactly what Fender claimed: roll off highs without adding mud. I usually start a gig with both (neck and bridge) tone controls at halfway and turn them up while playing solos, then back to half when comping.
The neck pickup sounds almost L5-jazzy with the tone control all the way down. The bridge pickup has a great melodic sound with the tone control at half, clean or distorted. In spite of my "L5-jazzy" comment I would not consider the circuit to sound mellow with these pickups at any settings. Note that on these guitars the bridge tone control at max has a slight detente that seems to switch out the control completely. I'm not sure I need that feature, the less-than-max tone settings are the useful ones.
I recently compared these guitars to my mid-70's Strat with Lace Gold pickups and standard tone circuit: back to the closet it went (it still is great for recording), the Strat Pro won. It's good news to me that this circuit is in the Highway Strats, I might be able to leave the Custom Shop guitars home, but I suspect the pickups are a huge factor in how this circuit sounds. What I can no longer do is get the Jeff Beck bridge pickup "vocal" tone achieved by backing off the volume about 2-3 points, but this may be due to the samarium cobalt pickups.
My perspective: started guitar in 1964 (I was born with a Strat in my hand, Mom was pissed because I didn't remove the whammy bar) and have played full time for 20 years, the last 20 in part-time retirement. My comments apply for all amps and software I've played through, clean through high gain settings. I'm working on a thorough review of the Strat Pro with sound samples, but in the meantime the Fender web site has a nice video demo filmed right on the factory floor (cool professional vibe) by a fellow geezer who enjoys the Strat Pro as much as I do and can play it well.


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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:07 pm
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My HWY 1 Tele has this circuit and it is effective. I use it quite a bit to roll off some highs, especially when using OD and distortions.

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