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Post subject: Fender Contemporary Strat Tone Question?
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:17 pm
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Buenos Dias!

On my 1986 MIJ Stratocaster recently bought (I say recently and i mean November) I have been wondering a while about a little click i get on the tone knob, it is on '5' and was wondering if it has more purpose than to just let you know when you are central to keep it even and it its best?

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Post subject: Re: Fender Contemporary Strat Tone Question?
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:54 pm
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the detent at 5 you feel in the tone control is for the TBX circuit. If you do a search here you can find out all about it, better than I can explain. In a nutshell you have standard tone control to the detent at 5, then a whole different tonal option after the detent.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Contemporary Strat Tone Question?
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 12:05 am
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On a previous thread I startes inquiring on my 1988 Am Std Strat, our buddy Xhefri explained the TBX:

The TBX is not an active system, as some believe, (using a battery as found on the 25db boost on the Clapton Strats), but it is simply a stacked set of potentiometer that cuts either treble or bass, where as the standard tone control only cuts the treble. So we have: T (treble) B (bass) X (Cut) thus TBX. When you turn this knob, you can feel a halfway point (detent)—this is tone neutral (#5 on the knob!). This TBX control gives the bridge and middle pickup a unique variety of sounds! When the 5-way switch is in the 4th position, by turning the tone control you can get a bell like sound to a honking out-of-phase mid-range sound. Put the switch in position #2 and, you get a quack, or a hollow twang! The 1st tone control is a standard Fender 250 k potentiometer as is the volume control.

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Post subject: Re: Fender Contemporary Strat Tone Question?
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:29 am
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Thought this might be DeltaTone but the date is too early. TBX sounds about right.

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