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Rather than measuring something, it’s more about how things feel. You spend three hours building a board and plug in your guitar. Your cables are … Read more

If you have decent equipment but still notice that volume decreases significantly upon moving from the bridge pickup to the neck pickup, it’s likely just … Read more

Sometimes while playing onstage, your guitar just seem to dissapear in a mud puddle of sound and it’s not due to your fingers, the room, … Read more

So you changed the pickups, retuned the strings, inspected your amp’s tubes. Still, something isnt right. The tone sounds off, either too muffled or not … Read more

If you’re like most of us, you’ve probably heard someone say an amplifier sounds half as loud when turned down to half power. Most folks … Read more

Wait for the note to develop while holding it in tune. Then there is point of stability, when the pitch solidifies and starts to vary. … Read more

How a whammy bar works. Unless you know the tension, scale length, and leverage on your dive, it’s going to be muddy. Not only that … Read more

First, you need a good idea in your head about what will happen before you pluck the string to get started. Your target is not … Read more

Instead of just sitting there as a static midi sample, vibrato breathes and swells a long note to give it life. It’s the difference between … Read more