Sooner or later, it happens: band practice. For many people, rehearsal, or “re-hassle”, is a necessary evil, one that must be endured in order to get that glorious stage time that they (and their girlfriends) […]
Piezo Electric pickups employ a crystal that has the unusual ability to transform mechanical energy into electrical voltage. During the Sixties, pickup manufactures realized that if a small piezo-electric crystal could be attached to the […]
Floyd Rose is the revolutionary tremolo systems off time. In 1964 a guitarist named Floyd Rose moved from Durango, Colorado to Reno, Nevada. There he started playing in bands. Floyd had many guitar artist influences. […]
I am 13 years old and play in a band. I have five foot pedals: distortion, volume, phaser, chorus and a pedal that makes one guitar sound like two. I have a gig in a […]
What is the difference between a compressor and a noise gate? They both have threshold, attack and release controls. What gives? Ken XXX@rocketmail.com . Interesting question, sir. Compressors and noise gates are similar in some […]
Our Carvin BK4 bass guitar arrived in 42 separate pieces, and we couldn’t have been more excited. No, UPS wasn’t to blame: this was one of Carvin guitars’s innovated do-it-yourself bass kits, which lets you […]
Mesa Boogie Mark V tone samples all compiled onto one youtube video for your hearing pleasure. Mesa Boogie website states: IT TOOK 40 YEARS of Randall Smith’s experience designing high-performance tube amps to get this […]
I have a ’90 or ’91 second-hand Japanese Fender Strat. I love the guitar, but its sound is starting to wear on me. I’ve tried different amplifiers, pedals and everything, but it’s impossible to escape […]
I recently picked up a 12-string guitar from craigslist.org, and I have no idea how to string it or tune it, nor do I know what string gauges are typically used on this style of […]
Over the past months, I’ve opened countless emails from frustrated players who would like to customize their tone but can’t achieve the ideal sound that they hear in their head. It’s as though the tone […]
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