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I am assuming you are referring to the tone switch on an Electric Guitar. Here's how it works:

Power from the pickups is sent to a volume pot, or knob. On the "high" end of the volume pot, a tone pot is connected. This has a capacitor connectd to the "high" end and nothing connected to the low. When you turn it to the "high" position, the capacitor "caps" of the higher, or treble, sounds from the mix. When turned the opposite way, the sound is left clean.

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