The Fender Greasebucket Tone Circuit was introduced in 2005. It’s called Greasebucket because it is based on the shape of the oil-filled capacitor.<\/p>\n
Where Fender bass guitars are concerned, this tone circuit appears specifically in American Special Fender bass models<\/a> which, according to Fender, “rolls off highs while maintaining low-end definition.”<\/p>\n Is the Greasebucket circuit still in the American Special Jazz and Precision bass models? As of this writing, yes it is.<\/p>\n Some players like the Greasebucket circuit while others don’t really care for it – enough to want to remove that tone circuit entirely.<\/p>\n It is possible to remove the tone circuit, but it must be done in a way where you don’t accidentally reverse the direction of the tone knob.<\/p>\n This video below shows what happens when you remove the tone circuit and the tone knob direction is reversed:<\/p>\nGood? Great? Bad? Awful?<\/h3>\n