Posts from April 2013

I think it's safe to say that the trend of "relic" Strats is officially over, because whenever you mention "relic" these days, players get pretty disgusted by it, as in, "Oh, another one of those fake-old things. Yeah, whatever." And yet, . Are players really still buying these things?

An explanation of the sound difference between a 250K and 500K guitar potentiometer

Boredom is something that happens to every guitar player at some point. You've played everything you can possibly think of, become disinterested, put the guitar down and go do something else. This is totally normal.

Just finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four and watching all three movies of the same name.

A tutorial on how to get a metal sound out of a Fender Stratocaster guitar

A really interesting phenomenon happens with guys and girls who buy Squier guitars.

It's my belief that every guitar player at some point has to make the mistake of buying an expensive electric guitar before he learns not to waste his money. It doesn't matter how many times I tell players, "DON'T DO IT!", because they're going to do it anyway, waste cash and then realize the expensive […]