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How to replace the tone and volume pots in your guitar
The problem
My recently purchased second hand dirty cheap Yamaha guitar had a noise problem and after some testing I narrowed it down to the volume and tone pots. They wouldn’t turn smoothly and the noise changed as I turned them being the less annoying when both pots where at their maximum.
To illustrate what I [...]
How to build a quality home studio for $3000 (part 3)
Buy cheap guitars. Seriously. I do have the expensive ones… at home (9500 km away) but I decided not to bring any of them cos it’s always very annoying to take a guitar through the airports and I wanted to do a little experiment. I wanted to buy the guitars at my destination to prove [...]
Goodbye Les Paul, we’ll keep rocking with your guitars
A friend of mine has just sent me a link: Les Paul is dead. In case you don’t know who he was he invented the best guitar in the world, was a studio engineer ahead of his time and an excellent musician.
My first electric guitar was luckily a beautiful wine colour Gibson Les Paul [...]
Sight reading for guitar
Lately, I’ve been using William Leavitt’s Reading Studies for guitar. I’m on a mission to improve my guitar reading skills and I can already feel the improvements.
I studied several years of classical guitar training and although I always managed to read the pieces I needed I was never satisfied with my reading speed. Too slow, [...]
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