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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It’s a filter. The magnetic pickups in your instrument have a self-resonance and a related built in low pass (high cut) filter. The “tone” knob ads a capacitive load to your pickup effectively lowering the frequency of the self resonance and low pass filter. It should sound like your instrument is trapped under a blanket when you turn the “tone” knob all the way down. (When plugged in and playing through an amp and speaker) If it doesn’t work like that then you may need to take it to a tech.
When you hear someone say “tone is in the hands” what they mean is that no matter the gear a musician will sound like herself/himself. So give Victor Wooten any working bass and amp and he’ll still sound like Victor Wooten, not Adam Neely. (Or whoever you want to put in my example.)
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