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Cage Match: Few Controls vs. Many
Guitars can be made many ways these days. Some provide one or two sounds from the guitar itself, with nothing more than a pickup and a volume knob. Some players like a huge palate of sounds available...
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Adrian Galysh: The Tone Poet
Adrian Galysh is a name heard quite frequently around Los Angeles, as a busy studio player and sideman with Uli Jon Roth. He’s also beginning to develop a substantial internet presence via Facebook and...
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Five Questions With Five Finger Death Punch’s Jason Hook
Five Finger Death Punch is hot off the release of their fifth full length release in just seven years, The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2, and are currently busy banging...
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Five Questions with Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett has had quite the music career. From California punkers No Use For A Name to punk rock super-group Me First and the Gimme Gimmes to hitting the big time as a member of the Foo Fighters...
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Hot Rod Guitars Of A Bygone Age
The 1980s are a difficult era. On one hand this era was awful: tight lycra pants, big hair, the rise of the synthesizer… One the other hand, the 1980s were amazing! Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son of a...
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Bruce Bouillet And The Order of Control
Yeah, I use JBs….you got a problem with that? If you were a fan of shred guitar, particularly Racer X in the 80s, you’re aware of Bruce Bouillet. He’s the only other guy in the world who could keep up...
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Jason Becker: The Interview
In 1987, Jason Becker was one of the fastest rising stars of the world of guitarists. Having joined Cacophony with Marty Friedman at just the age of 16 and played on Speed Metal Symphony and Go Off,...
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Review: Alternative 8/Screaming Demon Set
For a while I’ve been looking for the perfect allround set to go in either a Les Paul or Super strat and I believe I stumbled on the set that ticks all the boxes for me. I wanted a bridge pickup that...
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Win A Mayones Regius 7!
Seymour Duncan and Mayones have again teamed up to give away a very special one-of-a-kind guitar to one lucky player! This time it’s a Regius 7 with a Wenge top, flamed Alder back (yes, flamed Alder)...
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Talking Tone With Novembers Doom’s Larry Roberts
Chicago death/doom pioneers Novembers Doom have been at it for over two decades now, and they’ve seen many imitators come and go. And yet in all that time they’ve never been content to merely sit back...
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My Favorite Hybrid Humbucker Set
The cool Custom Shop sticker on the back What do you do when you love to work on your guitars and you’re kinda done with all parts except the pickups? You start testing pickups by the dozen (in my...
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Direct-Mounting Pickups Part II: The JB meets the PMS (Pickup Mounting System)
My Koa Warmoth Strat Excalibur “before”. As those who’ve read my blogs know, I’m a HUGE fan of and have written about the benefits of direct-mounting pickups in your guitar. There’s a noticeable...
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Cage Match: Learning Right-Handed or Left-Handed
It all starts somewhere. The first trip to the music store is either with the parents, or as an adult because ‘you always wanted to play.’ Most players fit into the above categories, and usually the...
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The Best Pickups for Note Separation Metal Edition
If you frequent guitar related forums and blogs one thing you may see being discussed is ‘note separation.’ So what is note separation, and why would a guitar player be looking for this in a guitar...
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Anatomy Of A Humbucker
Custom Shop wall of Fame. There are so many pickups out there, I want to try them all. P90s, mini humbuckers, all flavors of Fender Single Coils (Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Strat, Tele and many more)… but few...
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Best Pickups For Ibanez Guitars
Seymour Duncan makes a lot of pickups that are great in vintage designs like Strats, Teles and Les Pauls, but there are plenty of more modern-voiced pickups in the line-up too. Personally I’m a huge...
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How To Make A Hybrid Humbucker
I’ve spoken a lot about hybrid humbuckers of the last few years. I talked about how I go about matching coils together, I talked about some of my favorite hybrids, and now I’m gonna give ‘you the keys...
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Interview with Simple Plan’s Sebastien Lefebvre
Simple Plan’s Sebastien Lefebvre The platinum-selling, “new-punk” stylings of Simple Plan first made their appearance on the music scene in 1999. The band played the Warped Tour and never looked back....
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Jackson Pro DK2M Dinky Limited Run Yellow Tiger
Jackson has just added another guitar to its range of instruments with 80s-inspired finishes: the new Yellow Tiger. Like the Slime Green Swirl and Black & White Crackle models released recently,...
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Cage Match: Buying New vs. Buying Used
You know the deal. You can afford to buy that awesome piece of gear brand new, but you scour the interwebs looking for The Deal. The Deal might as well be unobtainium, especially after checking out...
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