EVH designed the Wolfgang guitar with one pot and, because he’s so witty, it has a “tone” knob, haha and, er, ha. With passive ‘lecs, I rarely touch the tone – just set it about where it needs to be and leave it. Even though I like actives, it’s more for the output boost and low s/n rather than fiddling with eq. That said, the treble boost/cut is absolutely useless on my Jim Reed.

I prefer a useable pair of pups to switch between, such as you get on the Jazz. One of my pet hates (again, a feature of the Jim Reed) is a pair of identical pups placed too close together to make much difference. Might as well just have the single.

My problem is that it’s tricky to find an apt moment to leave the note hanging and start fiddling with my knob. Changing my string attack is a lot easier.