Baxandall
From Thermionic Studios
What is better known as the "Baxandall" tone stack is also called the James tonestack.
This tonestack fixes midrange frequencies at a "middle" volume level.
This is done for few reasons:
- First, and likely most importantly: Cost. Fewer tone controls cost a manufacturer less.
- Second, simplification of the tone stack with only bass and treble controls makes the tonestack simpler to modify by musicians.
- Third, Baxandall tonestacks, by many musicians, are simply described as "sounding good".
(Pictures will go a long way towards describing how this tonestack works. We'll have to create them and post them for helping provide the best explanation.)