Monday, October 14, 2013

How would I build a tone knob pedal for guitar?

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Nick Gross


I have a guitar with a single volume pedal and no tone and would like to make one myself, I'm wondering how I would go about doing it... I have a saudering gun just need to know the parts, schematics, and wiring diagrams... I want the pedal to work as a tone control with 1 or 2 knobs, and be as close as possible to the guitars actual tone control knobs... I want this knob to work as my tone control knob as my guitars tone control knobs where removed


Answer
As a basic idea for the tone control, you might need a potentometer and a capacitor. The capacitor is attached to the tone control potentiometer. The capacitor is the filter component that adjust the level of tone in the signal. It acts as a high pass filter, it captures higher frequencies in the signal and bleeds it out to ground the more treble you give on the dial knob. It resists low frequencies. The input signal for the tone control would come from the volume control (volume pot) and the output would be some pre-amp signal.

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