Passive filters - in guitar?

[chi_boy]

There are mutiple interesting tone controls that have been posted here. Things like the SWTC, the Big Muff and others.   

I was wondering if anyone had tried any interesting tone controls found here directly in a guitar. I know some of these take out a lot of volume and require some form of a recovery stage so wouldn't work well as a passive control.

I have a couple of re-wires to finish up and was just wondering if something less traditional would be worth exploring.

Cheers,
George

[BAARON]

A lot of the more complex passive tone controls here would be a poor match for guitar, due to impedance mismatch and the amount of signal loss you'd encounter.  However, if you want a little more variety with your guitar's tone controls, you use one control as a treble roll-off (as usual) and another as a bass roll-off to brighten up your sound for lead playing.  The schematic for the G&L Legacy has such a control.

http://www.glguitars.com/schematics/Legacy_schematic_blockdiagram.pdf The specific schematic.
http://www.glguitars.com/schematics/index2.asp The G&L wiring schematic page for all their models.

[Nasse]

Perhaps it would work with resistors caps and high output pickups if you destroy the sound with distortion anyway. I have one junky vintage guitar I bought at flea market and it has very complex passive tone control system. It sort of works but very weak pickups and signal loss ruins it

Check Anderton passive tone control and do a search for "varitone", AMZ has somethin too