Thursday, August 1, 2013
Tone Switch in Gretsch Style
In this post I will show you my idea for a Gretsch style guitar tone switch. It's a three position (cap1 - off - cap2) low-pass filter selector. It can be a very useful tool, if it's well tuned.
In my circuit, I'm using different capacitors values than Gretsch. I'm also using a SPDT on-off-on toggle switch, which is easy to buy and comfortable in mounting.
The lower value tone cap will help you in getting fat overdrive tones.
The higher value capacitor is good for clean, really smooth sound.
I've got three version of this wiring. One is for classic Filtertron pickups (Gretsch, TV Jones). Second is for use with Fender style single-coils. Third is for PAF style humbuckers and P90's.
Diagram:
