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Post subject: Re: WHERE ARE THE OLDER EMPLOYEES AT FENDER?
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 5:08 am
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Also was in touch recently with Paul Gagon who contributed some info for my website on the development of the TBX.

Rrrrrreally!?!?! :lol:

Yes! See the pict he sent me (below) at is work bench around 1982. He wrote:

“TBX stood for Tone Boost Expansion, which is a pair of stacked potentiometers. I came up with the circuit while working on Fender’s Elite Strat project. The circuit is really quite simple. The goal was to unload the pickup from the tone control pot. With the TBX control fully clockwise the pickup has a 1meg resistance sitting on top of the tone control. When you hit the center detent of the pot you jump over to the normal tone control circuit of a 250K pot and a .022uf cap.

"So sonically you hear a brighter sound out of a Strat pickup when it's unloaded, or has a high resistance across it—like a meg or two. The TBX works as a standard tone control from center detent to 0 and there’s an 82K resistor that sits in parallel with the 250K pot. That resistor is used to dampen the resonant frequency peak of the pickup to nearly flat when the TBX pot is at center detent. Then from center detent to 10 you are decreasing the resistive loading on the pickup which allows it to have a stronger output at its resonant frequency, which is around 4KHz, when measured on the Elite Strat.”

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Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 10:35 am
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Sooooo....THAT's! how this works...... :lol:
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Hooray - good ol' Rob (or "Unc Rob", as I call him) did make it out to last night's Fender Band Jam in Scottsdale!! Always has been, and continues to be, one of my very favorite people.

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 8:22 pm
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Brad Traweek - Fender wrote:
Hooray - good ol' Rob (or "Unc Rob", as I call him) did make it out to last night's Fender Band Jam in Scottsdale!! Always has been, and continues to be, one of my very favorite people.

Nice! Some picts?? 8)

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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 5:32 am
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Xhefri wrote:
Brad Traweek - Fender wrote:
Hooray - good ol' Rob (or "Unc Rob", as I call him) did make it out to last night's Fender Band Jam in Scottsdale!! Always has been, and continues to be, one of my very favorite people.

Nice! Some picts?? 8)

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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 12:04 pm
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Xhefri wrote:
Brad Traweek - Fender wrote:
Hooray - good ol' Rob (or "Unc Rob", as I call him) did make it out to last night's Fender Band Jam in Scottsdale!! Always has been, and continues to be, one of my very favorite people.

Nice! Some picts?? 8)


I saw a few on FB. :wink:

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