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Wiring A Hollow Body Guitar the Easy Way
Have you ever looked at a hollow or semi-hollow guitar on the wall at your local music store and wondered how the heck they get the electronics in there? The short answer: it’s do-able, but not easy. In fact, it’s widely considered to be one of the most difficult jobs in the wide world of guitar maintenance. My tech charges extra for doing electronics work in a hollow-body, and he’s definitely not the only one. Continue reading
Posted in Tips and Tricks
Tagged electric guitar, hollow-body, pickups, pot, potentiometer, semi-hollow, tone pot, wiring
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The Mad (Guitar) Scientist’s Lab Equipment List
It’s a little known secret that mere mortals can repair and maintain their instruments using only hand tools (sssh, this is just between us!). Heck, using prefab or custom-ordered necks and bodies, you can build them too. Contrary to popular … Continue reading
Posted in Tips and Tricks
Tagged capacitor, CTS, DIY, Dremel, FretRest, multimeter, potentiometer, Radio Shack, Soldering iron, Stew Mac
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Stop Ignoring Those Knobs
Volume and tone knobs are pointless, right? Let’s say you’ve got all your knobs at ten on the guitar, and on the amp, your perfect “workhorse” tone is dialled in. Just the on the edge of overdrive; a little bite … Continue reading
So You Want to Get a Bit ‘More’ Out of Your Pickup…
So you’ve got a great bridge pickup that just really shoots flames when running through a hot guitar amp. It’s awesome, but you find yourself wanting just a little bit ‘more’. Not more in the sense of hitting the amp up with a boost or overdrive pedal, but ‘more’ from your pickup. There is a pretty easy way to achieve this with a DPDT on/on switch or push/pull (or push/push) potentiometer, some wire, and some simple soldering skills. Continue reading
Posted in The Tone Garage
Tagged blower switch, DIY, DPDT, more, on-on, passing lane, potentiometer, Push-Pull, switch
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Going Deeper Into 250K Vs 500K Pots
It is well known that a 500k pot will give you more highs than a 250k pot. But the “why” remains a cloudy subject. So let’s get to the bottom of it: why does the value of the pot matter? Continue reading
Create a two stage potentiometer
Many guitars also come with a combination of single coil and humbucker pickups. Running a 500K potentiometer when using singles may make them too sharp and shrill. Sure you can have a couple of volume potentiometers, one for each sort of pickup. But what if you want to keep your control layout simple? Continue reading
Posted in The Tone Garage, Tips and Tricks
Tagged 250k, 500k, bright, dark, DIY, humbucker, pot, potentiometer, Sh-4, single coil, two stage, volume
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So you want to experiment with pickups, but are afraid of soldering…
What if you could pay a tech a one-time fee to install a device that would mean you could swap out pickups to your heart’s content, at home without a soldering iron? Well, Seymour Duncan has you covered with the Liberator. Continue reading
Posted in Product News, The Tone Garage, Tips and Tricks
Tagged connector, Frank Falbo, Liberator, potentiometer, screw-clamp, solderless, volume
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Seymour W. Duncan will be featured on Cox 8 Santa Barbara BackBeat show in May
Our very own Seymour Duncan is keeping busy! Seymour and other members of the team will be featured in a segment incorporated in the Cox 8 Santa Barbara BackBeat show. It will be a 10 minute segment describing the process … Continue reading
Posted in Pickup Reviews, Seymour Duncan Company, Seymour W. Duncan, Video
Tagged 2011, BackBeat Show, Cox, electric bass, electric guitar, humbucker, pedal, pickup, pickups, potentiometer, Santa Barbara, Seymour Duncan
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Mod Squad: When Volume Controls Act Like Tone Controls
By Seymour Duncan Tech Guru Scott Miller On some electric guitars, when you turn down the volume control, the treble response decreases, leaving you with a bassy sound. Some people dig this, but some don’t. If you’re in the latter group, and … Continue reading
Posted in The Tone Garage, Tips and Tricks
Tagged electric guitar, potentiometer, treble response, volume control
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