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Post subject: Tone controls
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:33 am
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On my Telecaster the Tone control knob makes a lot of difference. On my 1983 Squier Strat it made none. I pulled it apart and tested it with a multi-meter - tone knobs work fine. The problem was the little bendy bits in my 3-way switch were not contacting properly. A bit of bending and fiddling and they now work. But - while I can perceive a difference between 1 and 10 on the tone control knobs, the difference is nothing like on my newer Tele. Is that normal? Do I need a new switch? What do you think?


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Post subject: Re: Tone controls
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:41 am
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You've probably got different value capacitors in the two circuits. Unless you can get to the caps to read the values (or connect an LCR meter across the two caps) then it's impossibe to say.

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Post subject: Re: Tone controls
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:46 am
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GilgaFrank wrote:
You've probably got different value capacitors in the two circuits. Unless you can get to the caps to read the values (or connect an LCR meter across the two caps) then it's impossibe to say.



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Post subject: Re: Tone controls
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:12 am
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Contacts on the switch may not good enough to work, check solder too . Squier use cheap switch , best is to replace it .

Any mod or work before on Squier ?

Look what is the value write on the caps , both guitar


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