If you ever need (or want) to change your guitar’s pickup, you’ll be faced with a dilemma: what to do with the strings. By removing a set of strings, you might need to attach an entirely new set due to the damages caused during the initial installation. This could discourage many modding enthusiasts from even approaching…
Pickups are an integral component of every solid-bodied guitar. An underwhelmingly built or installed pickup can ruin a guitar’s sound quality, regardless of whether you have a good-quality set of strings or not. There are various types of pickups, classified according to various features. You may have probably already heard of active and passive pickups…
There’s great variety in electric guitar designs, which extends to the pickups. One aspect of the design is the angle, or lack thereof, at which the pickup shifts from being perpendicular to the strings. Why are some guitar pickups angled? Guitar pickups (typically single-coil) can be angled to achieve a certain “equalization” in an electric…
One of the most important things to keep in mind if you own a guitar or a bass is the status of your strings, as their vibration is what produces the notes. If the strings are faulty or worn, they will undermine the instrument’s full potential, no matter how good a guitar is. How often…
The recurring expense of guitar strings is a price all guitarists must pay. There’s a wide variety of price points for guitar strings, and like any purchase, a greater price tag may not necessarily mean a better product. Are expensive guitar strings worth the investment? Expensive guitar strings are often worth it due to their…
Musical instruments utilizing a keyboard, like all pianos and many synthesizers, are sometimes a matter of confusion. Whether acoustic or electric, these musical instruments have distinct characteristics and specific applications in music-making. What are the differences between synthesizers and pianos? Pianos are acoustic string/percussion instruments that produce sound by hitting a string with a hammer….
Electric guitars are versatile instruments that can be tweaked by virtually any guitar player with moderate knowledge about how they work. This is particularly true in the case of the pickups in electric guitars. Pickups can be swapped in and out, adjusted in height, removed completely from the guitar, or added to the design in…
Electric guitars rarely have only one pickup, but one-pickup guitars do exist. Normally, guitars have two or three pickups installed. This may prompt the question of whether the number of pickups makes any significant difference in the sound. Does having more pickups improve a guitar’s tone/sound? Having more pickups won’t necessarily improve the tone and…
When we look at the market for guitar strings, we’ll often find distinctions between the types of guitars each set is meant for. Since most acoustic and electric guitar strings have steel cores (as opposed to the nylon cores of classical guitar strings), there may be some questions regarding whether acoustic and electric guitar strings…
Synthesizers can be awesome, powerful instruments in the right hands. On the contrary, they can be a stale ornament to any studio if they are not understood fully. Thus, we created this blog post to help you better understand what synthesizer patches are, where they come from, and what you need them for. What is…
Synthesizers are, perhaps, the most powerful musical instruments available in the world today. Indeed, they can recreate virtually any other sound and create new sounds that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Although most of us know what a synthesizer is, few know why they are called that way. So, why do we call synthesizers that way? Why…
Boiling water is usually associated with cooking or blanching. You will probably not hear the phrase “boiling strings” very often in everyday vocabulary. Why do guitarists and bassists boil their strings? Boiling guitar and bass strings is a method of cleaning within their windings, between their outer layer and their core. The boiling water expands…
