Tone control

[William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

Most guitar manufacturers no matter how high end usually don't go the  
extra mile by including capacitor circuits on the their tone  
controls.  usually something like a.02 micro fared capacitor I seem to  
recall, but I'll find out for sure.  Rolling off Hi end doesn't have  
to be an all or none proposition. The guy who assembles my electric  
guitars used to live and work in Austin for people like Stevie Ray  
Vaughn and David Grissom, and knows all the tricks about wiring. My  
tone controls attenuate a bit of high frequency without muffling the  
sound. Playing technique can provide different shades of bright and  
dark simply by moving closer to the neck and away from the bridge, or  
using finger flesh rather than a pick, or using a pick out of a more  
neutral material than plastic. I use dunlop jazz 3 picks when playing  
with picks though these days i prefer my fingers. The jazz threes are  
very neutral sounding.
  As for flat wounds I'm glad there are people out there who like and  
buy them, but I won't, for me playing on flat wounds is like walking  
on ice, too slippery to really dig in to, and too rigid to bend. BTW  
why is it that many trad jazz players don't bend strings much? Seeing  
as there is a direct line between blues and jazz , is it because the  
strings of choice are too hard to bend?   I tried them for slide  
guitar thinking that the slickness would be an advantage but I  
couldn't stand how dull they sounded.
PS these where DAddario Chromes. I get a lot of life out of my strings  
but thats because I'm very diligent about keeping my hands clean  
before I play, and also wiping the strings down thoroughly when I'm  
done. I like the feel and sound  of round wound strings, and  
ultimately sound is more important to me than feel.
Bill the contrarian