I have an original Vox Wah-Wah pedal, and I think it’s probably time to put a new pot in it. My dad bought the pedal in 1968, and it’s starting to sound pretty noisy. I want to keep the tone and range if the wah the same. Do I need a particular type of pot? [...]

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Ralph Serpe asked: I am sure you have been searching for acoustic beginner online guitar lessons for quite some time now. Perhaps these sites have not answered some of the most basic questions that a beginner has when starting acoustic guitar. This article was written to address those questions with tips, lessons and basics that [...]

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Cold is reuniting according to lead singer, Scooter Ward, on Cold’s MySpace page. Cold is expecting to release a new album in the fall 2009. After producing their emotional Different Kind of Pain album the band went in different directions. Cold’s front man, Ward, created The Killer and the Star featuring Limp Bizkit’s drummer John Otto, together [...]

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One of the last companies that are being distributed by Godlike is Chunk Systems and their first commercial effort together will be the Chunk Systems Octavius Squeezer Bass Synth Pedal, an analog pedal that includes some different effects to give to your bass guitar a huge range of sounds that can be fully configured at [...]

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Luna Guitars has added a new artist in its signature product line, the ex-A Perfect Circle and ex-Zwan bass player Paz Lechantin, with a new passive bass model that combines the most interesting features from 3 different models, a Fender Precision, a Gibson Bass and the Lune Henna Acoustic Bass. A prototype of this model [...]

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“I’ve always wanted to be known as something more than a blues guy,” says Doyle Bramhall II, a guitarist still known for his teenage association with Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Double Trouble’s first post-Stevie outfit, the ARC Angels. But his heavy blues past notwithstanding, Bramhall is starting to look like he’s on [...]

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I read that Eddie Van Halen waxes his pickups and boils his strings. Can you tell me why he does this and how I can do it myself?
Tim
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Winding in the pickup tend to become loose over time. Waxing (or “potting”) a pickup prevents loose windings from vibrating and becoming microphonic, a condition that results in [...]

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Hamer Artist Vanguard Electric Guitar Review

Depending on how you look at it, Hamer guitars has built their reputation as either the guitar world’s custom shop or its smallest production line. Whichever view you choose, the bottom line remains that Hamer produces a limited quantity of amazingly well-crafted instruments with unique custom details at (or below [...]

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The Nashville Convention Center was the scene for this year’s summer NAMM Show, and Babicz Guitars used the occasion to offer a “sneak peek” of their new, all US manufactured Crescent Series line of solid body guitars.
This new innovative design, fresh off the bench of Jeff Babicz, will initially be produced in Indiana using all [...]

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The RG770DX is back for the summer of 2008.
The successful 2007 release of the Twentieth Anniversary Ibanez RG550 guitars only whetted guitar dealer and player appetites for the original RG designs. What they wanted was more RG reissues — especially the RG770DX with its matching color body, knobs, headstock, pickups, and sharktooth inlays. The RG770DX [...]

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