Question about the Tone Knob

[Milo]

I have a Yamaha pacifica 112L (a bridge humbucker and two neck single pickups), and i noticed that this guitar can have a very "electric" sound if i switch to a precise pickup position: when i turn the distortion on, and switch to the second position (which turn on both of my two neck single pickups), the sound seems quite electric, and if i turn the Tone knob from Ten to Zero, the sound is even more electric. i'm gonna upload two sound files to show you what i am talking about. and i would like to know why the electric sound only happen when i switch to this position, and why its even more electric when i turn the tone to zero.
another question, why my guitar have this electric sound ONLY after the 12th fret? i included in the sound file, a lick that i play both at the 15th fret and at the 3rd, to show you the difference.

[Milo]

Here's another example.. the first time played with the Humbucker (Tone 10) and the second time played with the two single pickups (Tone 0)

[metalprep6969]

When you have your tone knob at 10, it doesn't modify your signal, but as you turn it down, it starts to cut the treble from your signal, and at 0, it cuts the most from the signal. The bridge pickup has a crunchier, more treble-laden tone while the middle and neck pickups are smoother with less treble, the neck pickup especially. Humbuckers also have a higher output and are less plucky than single coils. I'm not really sure what you mean by electric sound though, but from what I can hear in your samples, you are looking for a smooth lead sound. I hope that helps...I don't fully understand what you are asking.

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[oRg]

I'm not sure what style of music you like playing but I noticed you memorized some Metallica so I can tell you what Kirk Hammet does when he plays lead and why it osunds the way it does. What Kirk does live is have the tone all the way up. Now depending on the song and sound he wants he sometimes plays on his bridge pickup to get a more trebly sound and sometimes he plays on his neck pickup in order to get a more full bodied sound. The thing with Kirk though is when he plays his solos live most of them are played on an ESP with humbuckers at both positions, I'm not entirely sure. I imagine your looking for that Kirk Hammet sound.

[Milo]

yeah exactly, i'm looking for the aggressive lead sound that kirk uses for example in the first solo and the middle solo of Fade to black.. but i dont understand why i get this sound only from the 12th fret to the 22th fret, and not on the first 12 frets... i mean, when i bend my string in the first 12 frets, it doesnt have the same aggressive and electric sound that i get from the 12th to the 22th

[oRg]

If you listen to him live sometimes he just plays with the tone knob all the way up and some other times he turns it about half-way down. I was never really bothered by attaining the exact tone of songs on a CD becuz there's so much production that goes into it. When Metallica plays it live it doesn't even sound like the CD, I know I was at one of there concerts a few years back.