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It seems that all the previous talk about tone pot adjusting has been to "roll off" it a bit. When I have my strat plugged into an amp with treble up, bass down, and mids up, the only time it gets sounding like it should is when i have the tone pots adjusted to like 8-9. Can anyone clarify? It seems to me that the Garcia sound relies on the the pots being wide open. It sounds especially like that when I listen to Mattson as well.

I find on my strat I get the best sounds out of the middle when I have it running wide open, but the bridge gets to brittle so I turn it to like 7-8.

Not sure what there is to clarify, perhaps its just differing opinion.

clarification on...most ive read on here saying to roll off the tone on your tone pots, and it doesnt sound good

Two basic sounds, wide open or rolled off all the way with the overdrive on for the "horn" tone.

I do minor adjustments fairly frequently, mostly in the middle 50% of the throw. Using a polypropylene .022 on a 500k linear pot, universal to all 3 pups.

I roll off the tone a little bit sometimes. Usually it's all the way on or all the way off (with distortion) but sometimes I like to roll off just a bit. Depends of if your rig is too bright or not.

Jim

I find that mine all the way on is too brittle. It has a sweet spot somewhere around 75% - I adjust it up and down from there.

Sweet spot about 85 % with my rig