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Studio Secrets
Cyber Riffs The development of the solidbody electric guitar in the 1950s
Tip Sheet initiated radical innovation in pickups, switches, amplifiers, and
accessories that continues with ever greater technological
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GMI sophistication. First there was a single volume control, then tone
Instruments control then three-way switches and on and on. The designer's
News & Info goal was to enhance the players' control of their sound. As each
Global Auction manufacturer rolled out a new feature, their competitors
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Gibson introduced the Varitone six-way
tone control in 1959 on the ES-345. Then
in 1982 B.B. King and Gibson joined forces
to create the one and only Lucille featuring
the Varitone with a wide range of
expressive sounds from a blazing
humbucker to a cutting single coil pickup. And yes, there is a
Varitone on the new Little Lucille.
VARITONE CIRCUIT
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"The other nice thing with that Varitone is the push/pull tone pot
which bypasses the circuit. The Varitone selector is a rotary
switch, and somebody might want to change his tone in the middle
of the song, but he's also thinking about keeping his timing. He
doesn't want to count how many times he's clicked his Varitone
knob. What this allows him to do is, for example, leave the circuit
in bypass and preset his Varitone at the beginning of the song. So
if you want to locate position 5 on the Varitone, for example,
preset the knob so that all you have to do is push that pot down."
VARITONE CIRCUIT
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