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When you place your finger lightly over a fret marker and gently pluck that string, you hear a clear natural harmonic. This sounds simple enough; … Read more

Your room also has standing waves that form peaks and valleys of air pressure. That is what makes bass notes sound muddy or tight. Many … Read more

When you place your finger on a fret and you bend the note, you notice that high E string goes dead as it touches edge … Read more

A guitar is drawn on paper and then one day it become a thing in your hands. That day typically involve calipers. What wood? Maybe … Read more

Nut spacing is one of those things you think you know until you go to set up brand new guitar and realize that our intuition … Read more

Pulling hard will make a guitar string bend, but there’s more to bending a string than just tugging at it. There are tension forces, material … Read more

For instance, if you are using a whammy bar, especially on high E string, you may have found that your tuning has become unstable. It’s … Read more

Multiscale fretboards are typicaly thought of as simply two parallel necks merged into one. This miss the math entirely. You are dealing with a series … Read more

Probably by now you’ve heard about the tension problems solved with multiscale fret boards, but what you might not know is that when you fix … Read more

How many times have you had to deal with a buzzing string on a fret? It’s not always a technique problem but more of a … Read more

While most of us spend time thinking about gauge and magnet selection for pickups, we don’t often consider what occurs once the signal pass them. … Read more

Tighten your guitar string but it goes flat once more. Not only is it due to tension but also to geometry. There’s insufficient downward force … Read more

In guitar circles there still exists the myth that changing out a tone capacitor is easy. On the forums, you’ll find people debating which value … Read more

Before you even put your hands on it, you know the scale length. The scale length affect more than just how far your fingers must … Read more

The problem is that twenty minutes before showtime, when screen on your field recorder turns black, a certain kind of panic always sets in. And … Read more