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Your Bass Tonal Palette I – Know your Volume
At some point, a working musician will walk into a gig, amp in hand, and be stopped. They’ll be handed a DI and a set of iffy headphones, and be told that “this is your rig.” No questions, or arguments. Please take your amp back to your car. And believe it or not, this is starting to become a regular occurrence, to the point where I bring my own headphones and preamp/DI of choice. But enough about that. Continue reading
Conventional Wisdom and the 100-Watt Amplifier
Sometimes you feel like the whole world has gone crazy. At least, that’s how I feel whenever I come across a person on an internet forum repeating the increasingly-prevalent diatribe about the supposed impracticality of the 100-watt tube amp. Continue reading
Choosing Pickups That Cut Through the Mix
For most of my career I’ve played in a band with another guitarist. I’ve even had the pleasure of sharing the stage with a second guitarist and a keyboardist. This always presents a bit of a problem though: how do I make my instrument stand out? Continue reading
Posted in The Tone Garage
Tagged Alnico II Pro Slash, band, eq, frequency, giveaway, Les Paul, mix, Pearly Gates, performance, Sh-4, SSL-5 Custom Staggered, stage, tone, volume
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Making Your Solos Stand Out, part 1
The solo: for many of us, it’s one of the best things about playing guitar. For others, it’s a terrifying prospect. This article is for those of us brave enough to step up and take the lead for a while, and it deals with a problem as old as the guitar solo itself: how to stand out in the mix when it’s your turn for the spotlight. Continue reading
Posted in The Tone Garage, Tips and Tricks
Tagged boost, compressor, distortion, lead, mix, overdrive, pedals, pickups, solo, volume, volume control
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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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