ABOUT
Kevin Chisholm launched Humbucker Soup in 2010, driven by his passion for — and 30+ years experience — modifying guitars. Whether onstage or in his workshop, his obsessive experimentation with pickups, wiring and guitar necks not only shaped his playing style, but inspired the creation of Humbucker Soup. Every day, Kevin and the HBS crew are there with practical, no-nonsense advice, pro tips and video tutorials to help other guitar players in the elusive lifelong pursuit of the perfect guitar tone.
Crew
Our resident electronics wizard came by his skills honestly — first as an apprentice in his father’s repair shop, later as a working musician and (most recently) as a sound designer for film. His passion for guitar led him to Humbucker Soup, where he continues to decode the wonders of wiring and the vicissitudes of voltage. Ed has never taken his guitar to a shop — he already knows how to fix it.
Kevin Chisholm launched Humbucker Soup in 2010, driven by his passion for — and 30+ years experience — modifying guitars.
Tyler is a guitarist, singer, producer, composer & engineer based in Los Angeles. In between duties at Humbucker Soup, he swims in the shark tank of music licensing for film and television. His favorite axe is his custom Pelham Blue Fender Stratocaster.
Los Angeles-based and Georgia raised, Ian Waters is a guitarist and producer working in pop, country and rock. He plays in various bands and is also a songwriter with a band under his own name @ianscottwaters.
Matt loves using creative expression to connect with people, whether it's with music or storytelling. When he isn’t writing for Humbucker Soup, he can usually be found at the beach, reading a good book, or playing his sunburst Jay Turser 220-SC Les Paul and Taylor 110E.
Teddy Allmendinger is a 27 year old producer/songwriter/engineer. Currently based out of LA, Teddy is staffed at a legacy studio that has served everyone from Johnny Cash to John Mayer. In his time there, he has found and developed several artists and also engineered nearly every genre.
Hailing from Brooklyn, NY and raised on a healthy diet of 80s guitar rock and pizza, Miguel's passion for the guitar has spanned 30+ years from player, to a wonderful multi-tiered life as husband, father, and technician.
Sid Srinivasan is a Guitarist/Singer-Songwriter based in LA. In the recent past, he has worked with Grammy award-winning producer A.R Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire, Pele), David Issac (Madonna, Michael Jackson), Dr. Freeze (Michael Jackson), and Joshua Williams (Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder).
Joe Dampt is the owner and lead appraiser at Joe's Vintage Guitars in Mesa, Arizona. A player and a repairman who grew up on the music of Hank Garland, Merle Travis, and Chet Atkins, he has spent more than a decade buying vintage instruments full-time — 10,000-plus appraised, 1,000-plus repaired or restored, from single inherited guitars to a 700-piece Tucson collection and the estates of musicians who played alongside Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn. A former traveling appraiser for Treasure Seekers Roadshow, he specializes in golden-era Gibson electrics and archtops, pre-war Martins, and Fender custom colors, and publishes dating and authentication guides at joesvintageguitarsaz.com. He still gigs, and his two keepers, a 1956 Gretsch 6120 and a 1956 ES-5 Switchmaster, are both single-coil guitars, a fact he hopes Humbucker Soup readers will forgive.
Matt Moehlenkamp is a Tube amp Designer/Builder with over 20 Years experience building and modifying tube guitar amps. Matt is also Co-owner of M3amps and will soon be launching a new Tuber Guitar Amp product line. For updates and more info go to m3amps.com
As Editor-In-Chief, Jay runs interference on content strategy, and social media. The rest of the time he can be found hanging with his dogs and tilting at windmills with his punk rock band, The Cocks.
Donna dots the “i”s and crosses the “t”s for our site’s rich content. As our Copy Editor, with a lifetime of experience, she’s the last pair of eyes on our articles before they hit the site. Working with such talented musicians and writers makes her job easy, though, and gives her very little opportunity to wield that dreaded red pen of hers.
