Teye™ Electronics

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The MOOD™-knob

All Teye’s guitars and basses are equipped with a Mood-knob. The function of this knob is to allow the player a vastly larger means of expression than what is possible with traditionally-wired instruments. Teye does not install any active electronics or batteries in his guitars, so the Mood™-circuitry is a clever passive filter. It is also black-boxed, to discourage prying eyes. Furthermore, it is different on basses, T-series, and R/E/A-series.

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Inter-active Volume and Tone controls

On most electric guitars, you leave the volume and tone knobs on 10 and arrange all further sounds with pedals and channel switching.

You can use the Electric Gypsy™ like that too, but you would be missing out on some incredible tonal possibilities.

  • The TONE-control actually works on this guitar: not just putting a pillow over your sound, but actually gently re-positioning the frequency curve. BTW, the Tone of Teye™-guitars has more top-end than most other Humbucker-equipped guitars, so if you want to emulate those darker sounds, you may want to re-position the frequency curve by means of the Tone-knob. It sounds weird, but… it actually works.
  • The VOLUME controls, when turned down, first remove volume while retaining a tiny extra amount of clarity. Thus, on position 7, the sound reminds of mini-humbuckers. When turning down further, and in conjunction with the Mood™-knob, there is some serious “twang” to be had. Then, when approaching the lower reaches, first all ‘body’ drops away from the signal, leaving you with a sound not unlike the good old Ovation acoustics, even into a high-gain guitar amp.
  • The MOOD-knob is at the heart of what makes these electronics so versatile. ESPECIALLY in combination with the Volume knobs, this control will give you incredible freedom of expression, even in the middle of a song, of a solo, when normally a guitar change wouldn’t even be possible.

These electronics work best when the guitar sound is not overly processed. Extreme dark, distorted or compressed settings on the amp will take away some of the merits described above. Some thoughts about the use of effects HERE.

Pick-up switching

Per May 1st 2011, the following pickup switching is in effect:

  • 1-pickup guitars: N/A
  • 2-pickup guitars:
    position 5 (up): neck pickup
    position 4: bridge + neck pickup out-of-phase
    position 3: bridge + neck pickup
    position 2: bridge pickup + tapped neck pickup
    position 1 (down): bridge pickup
  • 3-pickup guitars:
    position 5 (up): neck pickup
    position 4: bridge + neck pickup out-of-phase
    position 3: bridge + neck pickup
    position 2: bridge + middle pickup
    position 1 (down): bridge pickup

On the R-, E- and A-series 3-pickup models, the two volume knobs ‘jump’ to whichever two pickups are on.

On the 3-pickup guitars, there are two additional ‘positions’:

  • position 2 with bridge volume on zero: middle pickup by itself (N/A to the T-series)
  • between position 2 and 3: all three pickups

Older guitars:

For switching on guitars shipped before May 1st, 2011, please click HERE

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