Setting Up Volume and Tone Of Your Guitar

Almost every guitar has a volume and tone knob for guitarist to adjust. Some tone hungry guitarists tend to play around with these knobs in order to achieve their favorite sound. It's all good. However, as a beginner, my advise is to max out the tones and volume knobs. Like many of my previous entries, my main reason for this is for beginners to concentrate more on their playing instead of their tone so much. But once they are quite advanced, then they can then explore more on these knobs.

Below are the knobs that are usually found in a guitar:

Fig. A: Guitar Knobs, Volume and Pickups

As you can see, the 2 knobs shown on the figure on the top is actually the Volume and the Tone Knob. The Pick up switch is actually a toggle switch which is used to change which Pick Up sound to use.

Pick up switch can also play a part in shaping your tone. As for which pickup is used best for beginners, I have no preference. However, what I would suggest to beginners out there for this situation is to use the right pickup for the type of song that you're playing. If you play rock/metal sounding music, usually the bridge pickup is used. For mellow sounding songs, the neck pick up (the one nearer to the fretboard) is used instead.

Hope that helps beginners out there.