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January 3

Sinclair Lewis' views on Fun and Fancy Free

The Disney film Fun and Fancy Free was based in part on the short story "Little Bear Bongo" by Sinclair Lewis. Is there any record of Lewis having seen this film and/or expressed any opinion on it? 130.237.181.135 (talk) 14:11, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Guitar tone

What does the tone dial on an amplifier for an acoustic guitar do? What difference in sound would there be between a tone setting of 2 and a setting of 5? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4060:2E13:AF87:CD6:7046:D6A5:274F (talk) 14:36, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ordinarily, it just does Equalization (audio), so 2 would have more bass and 5 would have more treble. Card Zero (talk) 15:11, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Youtube has a wealth of information on this (as it does many topics) and would be my first stop in answering a question like this. This video, for example, runs through the function of common controls on many amplifiers. The OP asked about an acoustic guitar amplifier, and while that video uses a typical "electric guitar" amplifier, there really isn't a lot of core difference between amplifiers for electric guitars, acoustic guitars (or more properly "acoustic-electric guitars"), and bass guitars. All amplifiers perform the same basic functions, but how they are "optimized" will vary depending on what type of guitar, and what type of music, a person is playing. So the information in that video will apply to any amplifier. A tone knob either attenuates or boosts a range of frequencies. If you have a general single "tone" knob, what you have is a wide-band equalizer, that at high numbers will attenuate bass frequencies and/or boost treble, and at low numbers will attenuate treble and boost the bass. In that video, there are three different tone knobs, that just means that the effective bandwidth covered by each knob is narrower, giving the user more control over their tone. You can create just about any number of EQ controls, for finer and finer ability to shape your tone. --Jayron 32 12:21, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]