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The YJM High-Speed Volume Pot
You may wonder what the big deal is about a re-engineered volume pot. It is one of those things many guitarists leave up on 10 all the time, right? Some don’t even ever adjust it, getting dynamics...
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Digging Out of the Hole You’re In: Breaking Out of Playing Ruts
We’ve all been there before: when we’re uninspired and everything we play sounds, well, the same. Playing ruts, or more accurately named plateaus, are problems every instrumentalist faces and has to...
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Effects Basics: The Volume Control
The most overlooked effects of all time are the ones that come first in the chain. I’m talking about the tonal variations/special effects you can achieve with the volume (and tone) controls. These two...
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Should I Change Pickups or Buy a New Guitar?
As a guitar teacher, I get asked this question a lot. Since pickups can radically change or expand the tonal options available from an electric guitar, would it be better to just change the pickups or...
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My Top 10 Favorite Live Guitar Albums
You know, live albums can be hit or miss. You can go the Pink Floyd route, and make them almost indistinguishable from the studio recording with some crowd noise, or it can be like The Who’s Live at...
View ArticleThe Top 3 Guitarists in Deep Purple That Are Not Ritchie Blackmore (Rock &...
In what may be the longest title in the Seymour Duncan blog section, this time my verbose title is justified See, Deep Purple is one of the reasons I play guitar, and is still one of the reasons I...
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