One of the most common problems that guitar players face is a worn out Volume or Tone control. You can tell when one is becoming worn out by the loud, scratching sound in your guitar signal when you turn the potentiometer up or down.
What is Coil Splitting? Coil-splitting is wiring a humbucker pickup to a switch that shuts off one of its two coils. We do this because it gives us the ability to expand our sonic range and get single-coil tones from our two-coil pickup.
In this article, we’ll take a look at two power tubes that are similar enough to be interchangeable, but have different internal designs: the EL34 and the KT77.
In this post, we’ll show you how to wire a DiMarzio IGNO for your guitar. This pickup features DiMarzio’s patented dual-resonance design and scatter-wound coils, and it uses Alnico 8 magnets for greater output. The DiMarzio IGNO is a new humbucker developed for Polyphia guitarist Scott LePage.
Changing tubes in an amp can be a particularly challenging experience, especially since there seem to be so many of them. In this article, we’ll concentrate on the ECC83 vs 12Ax7 tubes. The truth is, there is no difference at all between them, and each one is interchangeable with the other.
The wah pedal is one of the best-known effects commonly found on a guitarist’s pedalboard. With its unique distortion capabilities, it is one of the few effects that is well known to even non-guitar players. It is expressive, giving the guitar an almost vocal-like quality, and guitarists such as Steve Vai have used the wah […]
Guitarists are always looking for ways to coax new and exciting tones from their guitars. One great approach is humbucker pickup splitting, which means using a switch to turn off one of the two coils in the pickup, causing it to sound and act more like a single-coil pickup. A split humbucker provides a crisper, […]
Frequently Asked Question: Why Are My Lindy Fralin Pickups Out of Phase? Is your newly installed Lindy Fralin pickup phase giving you problems? One of the most common problems a guitarist faces when purchasing new pickups is getting the phase right.
If you are a guitar player looking to create your own unique sound, one of the best ways to do this is to build your own equipment from scratch. A good portion of “Guitar Electronics” is just very simple circuits that can be built and modified at home.
Guitarists are always looking for ways to get fresh tones. Amplifiers and effect pedals do a great job of shaping your sound once it leaves your guitar, but there are also many simple modifications that you can make right in the body of your guitar, thereby unlocking a world of new tones.
In the last article we talked about building our own single coil pickup, so this time, we’ll talk about making double coil guitar pickups. If you missed the single coil article, you can check it out here: Building Your Own Electric Guitar Pickups – Part 3.
There are so many different kinds of pickups available, that it can become difficult to sort through the ever-growing list to choose the best one for you.