In this guide, we will show you a couple ways on how to install pickups on your electric guitar. Click here to learn more!
Learning how to set your pickup’s height correctly is probably the most overlooked step in purchasing a set of pickups. It would be like buying a new car and not inflating the tires. Pickup height is a critical element of your guitar’s tone. Set too low, and your pickup is ineffici...
A hard mounted pickup, on the other hand, is bolted directly to the body. The pickup’s height is not adjustable at all. The height and placement of a hard mounted pickup is set when the pickup cavity is routed during construction of the guitar. You might ask why would any want a ...
a conventional guitar pickup is an electromagnetic mechanism that produces a magnetic field. Your guitar strings pass through this field, and when you pluck a string, the magnetic field is disrupted—an action that translates into an electrical signal. That signal is output to an ...
Guitar Tab Chords To tab a chord the notes would be placed in a vertical line upon the horizontal ones. This diagram represents a C Chord. You would strum the bottom 5 strings of the guitar in one motion if you were to read this tab properly: And in this case you would strum the ‘...
While you are at it, tighten the strap buttons. They tend to come loose over time as well. Step Two: tune up:“It’s important that the instrument be at pitch when you adjust the truss rod. Currently, I use a Peterson clip-on strobe tuner for basic tuning, but you can use whatever...
a figure-of-eight polar pattern picks up strongest from the front and back of the mic and rejects from the sides. Through strategic microphone placement, the dead zone created either side of a figure-of-eight mic can be used to your advantage when recording a singer that plays guitar at ...
World’s Smallest Guitar/Bass Multi-Tool GrooveTech Tools has released its newest guitar and bass multi-tool, the Mini-Multi. Based on the premise that some players don’t adjust truss rods using a multi-tool, GrooveTech concentrated on action, tremolo systems, intonation, pickup height, and ...
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” she enthuses. “You see it in his eyes and you hear it in his voice: he has a passion for dad’s work. I picked up on it immediately.” Getting to know Ray’s family and looking over his pickups made an impact on Tom, too: “When I got to inspect the guitar at CAAS, I...