I think most people are a little scared to open up and tinker around with their guitar pickups and effects pedals. It’s like there’s some sort of special voodoo magic inside the components that shape our tone. Truth be told most of the time there’s nothing too crazy to deal …
One of the things that many guitar players like to do with guitars is change their pickups. Many are not comfortable with using a soldering iron, so they quite often will pay a tech to do what is essentially a fairly simple task. Seymour Duncan have recognised this, and developed …
When I first saw the new DR Strings Neon Hi-Def Green strings announced late last year I knew I had to try a set on my Ibanez RG550 RFR. The neon green would look awesome against my neon red guitar. The neon colours are achieved by using a coating over …
Jamie Campbell of The Creamery, a custom guitar and handwound pickups builder, has released some very nice new high output humbuckers, called the Dirty Shirt. The basic configuration of the Dirty Shirt pickups utilise Alnico 8 magnets and the bridge has 13.4K output, while the neck model has 10.6K output. …
Playing at high gain, or with a lot of pedals in your chain can cause numerous noise issues, combining both even more so. A noise gate is the perfect thing to help control unwanted noise, but they can introduce their own set of problems. Some noise gates can alter a …