what does a tone knob on a guitar / bass do?

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Even when I turn it from 0 or 10 I can’t hear a difference, and I thought tone was in the fingers of the players?

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Read this yesterday, keeps coming up in my thoughts. …

Been explained what the tone knob does, simply adjusts the pick-ups treble and bass sounding pitch.

And, *is used* for playing, not only when recording. (Basing on having owned & played electrics guitars for many decades)

So, this comes back to your, “I turn it from 0 or 10 I can’t hear a difference”. Easy answer is the tone mechanism on your guitar is broke. [Also, be sure that on your amp, it’s tone setting are at the “5”-middle range setting when testing the guitar’s tone adjustment.] …

Or eek!, shooting in the dark hear with zero idea of your hands-on experience with electric guitars or bass, worse case scenario may be your hearing is “tone deaf”, perhaps even just partially so, so you cannot hear the differences in the adjustments?

What I would do is have a friend with you to also listen when adjusting the knob & amp set-up. See what they say?

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