If you are obsessed with guitars
Demystifying the many available options when choosing the best guitar wire.Before we talk about choosing the best guitar wire, we’ll go over the different types that are used in guitars and which kind might be best for you. Continue reading “Best Guitar Wire – What Should I Use?”
Understanding the wiring inside your guitar and how it relates to proper guitar grounding.We’re going to take a look at proper guitar grounding and how you can make sure your wiring is safe and well placed. We’ll also take a look at Shielding and how you can benefit from correctly shielding your guitar. Continue reading “Proper Guitar Grounding — How Do I Do This?”
Discover a new world of tonal possibilities with a DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Blues 2.This time around, we’re going to be doing a DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Blues 2 wiring for your guitar. The Blues 2 is a stacked humbucker that uses Alnico 2 magnets for a higher gain pickup that works just as well in the neck position as it does in the bridge. The Virtual Vintage Blues 2 is said to have a warm sound that does not become muddy, even when heavily distorted, making it an excellent choice for Metal or Blues. This pickup is installed using four colored conductor wires and a bare wire.
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Demystifying one of the most misunderstood components of the electric guitar and helping you to choose the one that's right for your instrument.The tone control capacitor resides in the control compartment of your guitar, where all of the electronics are stored. This component is usually attached to your tone control, and it’s the only difference between the tone control and the volume control. Continue reading “Tone Control Capacitor – Choosing the Right Value for Your Guitar”
An excellent way to upgrade your guitar’s tone is to change your pickups, so here’s a great “how to,” with the Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbucker.In this post, we’re going to show you Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates wiring for your guitar, with the hope that you’ll enjoy the new sound possibilities.
The Pearly Gates is a humbucker that was designed to replicate the sound of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, which used the legendary P.A.F. pickups. Each Pearly Gates pickup is handmade and wax potted to help reduce feedback. Each also features an Alnico 2 bar magnet and a nickel silver bottom plate, and is installed using four colored conductor wires and a bare wire.
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What are the best output jacks? Well, that depends on what your mod or repair needs are.If you like to modify or repair your guitar, it won’t be long before you have to do some work on the output jack. Often one of the first components to go bad, these are the most likely cause of a malfunctioning guitar. So, let’s take a look at the best guitar output jacks.
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Taking a closer look at ceramic disc and mylar capacitors, their differences, and their affect on your tone.If you ever plan to replace your capacitor, you will quickly find that there are many different kinds available and just as many opinions about which one is best. Here, we’ll take a look at ceramic disc vs mylar capacitors, and the differences between them.
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This time we’ll talk about modifying your guitar so you'll be able to coil split your Seymour Duncan ST59-1 pickup.Before we get into our Seymour Duncan st59-1 coil splitting, we should talk about just what this modification is and why you may want to do it.
Coil splitting is when you use a switch to shut off one of the coils in your humbucker pickup. We split a humbucker because it gives us single coil tones, and it expands our sonic palette with a straightforward and reversible mod.
In this post, we’re going to show you how to install the Seymour Duncan ST59-1 humbucker pickup into your guitar.Seymour Duncan st59-1 wiring — let’s start with some basics: The ST59-1 is a mini-humbucker, designed as a direct replacement for the bridge pickup in a Fender Telecaster, but it will also work well in many other situations. The ST59-1 offers players hum-free operation and a thicker tone that still retains plenty of Tele Twang. This pickup is installed into your guitar using four colored conductor wires and a bare wire.
This time we’re going to talk about how to wire your guitar for DiMarzio Titan coil splitting.Coil splitting is when you use a switch to shut off one of the two coils in a humbucker pickup. We split a humbucker because it gives us the ability to expand our tonal pallet, and allows us to achieve single coil tones from our two coil pickup. Here, we’re going to show you DiMarzio Titan coil splitting.
