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Usually use the bridge clean as core sound so set the amp where I like it and don’t really have a ‘requirement’ to take any off or add any. Mid and neck are obviously darker so don’t feel and need to take away there. Use pedals for gain stages so use the EQ on those.
Used to use it more on a Strat but only to take some top off the bridge.
Am I the weirdo then? With playing, singing, moving about a bit on stage and pedals to bugger about with during songs feel like I’ve got enough going on so try and keep use of the guitar controls simple.
Other than that, just occasionally trying to emulate that awful, comedy jazz tone on a neck humbucker, the one that sounds like your amp has been covered by a pile of mattresses filled with custard.
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You've not said how your guitar is wired. Modern, 60s, 50s or however. The tone control will vary drastically depending on where it is in the circuit.
40years later I have a stupidly large collection of nos capacitors and have dialled in very low value caps to avoid mud and love the roll off with 30% taper ( J-CTS taper) on both vol and tone. The way a Strat bridge p/u can be thickened with a 6800pF cap is a thing of joy and the humbuckers on my Gibson’s can be brought into cocked wah territory with a 0.01uF cap.
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Gibsons - My Les Paul (pair of my Green Man PAFs) quite often.
Superstrat with two Neo-X-Breed humbuckers - never
Bass for recording ... always
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Weirdly, the other day I couldn't figure out why my Jackson sounded so shit, until I realised that the tone control was all the way off. I have no idea how or why that happened!
I loathe the "woman tone".
On my Strats - Just minimal tweaking. The neck pickup tone is usually wound back to about 3 or 4, and the middle pickup pretty much fully open. I find I can usually get all the sounds I want by using the pickup selector.