All of the above suggestions could also apply to making really cheap pickups sound better. Though getting a good tone out of cheaper pickups, that usually come stock on a lot of mid to low-cost guitars, is a lot more difficult. Since pickups are one of the primary sources of tone, ther...
But when they played them, everybody just said, ‘These are better than the American guitars.’ It got to the point where we were told as salesmen not to take any more orders because we had so many on back order – and we weren’t selling anything else.” The first Squier guitars ...
who set up a guitar factory in 2016. The company now sells 2,000 guitars online every day. Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba, the largest e-commerce platform in China, praised the company as a good example of the digital economy.
The difference between good guitarists and not-so-good guitarists is not whether they have long fingers or short fingers or whether they have big hands or small hands or whether they come from a musical family or not. ‘Talent’ is a tiny part of the equation. The thing thatmakes a dif...
There are several types of guitars: acoustic guitar or electric guitar, Spanish guitar or classical guitar. There are different guitar brands: Fender, Gibson, Ibanez and many more. All of them have the same music notes. So you can use this app for any type of guitar or any guitar brand....
Some companies such as Gold Tone also make mandolin-style instruments tuned like guitars. Known as manditars, these instruments are an even easier entry point into mandolin sounds for guitarists. For mandolin players looking for a different sort of sound altogether, consider mandolins with banjo-...
“hurt” your guitar, your guitar will just not play or sound as well as it could. Electric guitars need to be set up differently to play and sound good in drop tunings. It’s much easier to have two guitars with one setup in standard and the other setup in drop than to go back ...
In this photo, we have Lina holding my Ibanez guitar. I would never let her really swing this around and start smashing things up in the studio, but I can definitely make it look that way. Step 1 Filter >Blur gallery>Path Blur. You’ll see a blue path. You can change the direction...
Using a Ibanez tube screamer will, as everyone should know, eliminate the sparkle and highest frequencies. This pedal will sound good through bright speakers and a bright amp since these speakers will let all newances and bright details come through. A fuzzface may, in our humble opinion, not...
I shot the original photo in my studio with model Llana Barron and used my Ibanez Jem guitar. The rest of it was a little 3D and compositing in Photoshop. made this for a tutorial that I did in the magazine. If I have enough people ask, maybe I’ll redo the tutorial here. Anyway....