Multiple Gauge Wire

[Amit]

You can indeed hear it. That's why people started using treble bleed caps and active systems.

And when you wire the tone to the wiper it changes the effect of the tone control as you reduce the volume, since it's on the amp side, and not the pickup side.

You can easily make a recording with your volume all the way up, and then half way down, and then match the levels. You will hear less high end.

But it's generally used to good effect. When people have their amp cranked up, turning down the volume cleans up the sound, and gives it a more mellow top end, which compensates for the gain.

Set up a totally clean tone and listen.

The biggest online Telecaster players community in the world (TDPRI) thinks that this is the number one guitar mod, that it should be the STANDARD wiring from Fender... and you firmly debate that it's a downgrade.

Ok
You win

[David Schwab]

Jokes in text sometimes fail

I figured it was supposed to be funny, but I used it as a jumping off point to show what's going on.



I'm sure I come off too serious on here too... thus is the world of the internet.

[David Schwab]

The biggest online Telecaster players community in the world (TDPRI) thinks that this is the number one guitar mod, that it should be the STANDARD wiring from Fender... and you firmly debate that it's a downgrade.

I think part of that is it has become a tone of its own. Listen to the Tele on Sly and the Family Stone's song, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), that's a typical Tele trick, where the volume is turned way down, and you get a really thin bright tone.

I guess Tele players like for a lot of top end.

I said nothing about a downgrade. I said you lose high end when you turn down the volume, and that's why they put the treble bleed circuit in. Leo didn't just stick it there for no reason.

Now why they didn't put it in the Strat? Who knows.