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  TONE TALK 3 Simple Mods to Improve Your Tone In the world of instruments, so many factors can affect your tone. After spending some time with your guitar, you start noticing things and wonder what you can do to make it sound better. Here are some mods that you can do / or your guitar tech can easily do without spending too much or buying a new guitar. All it will take is a few know-how, tools, and a soldering iron. Shielding Is your guitar producing a static or humming sound? It could be that your guitar is picking...

TONE TALK Bass: Tapered and Standard Strings Once you have finally gone through the difficult task of choosing the right bass, the last thing you want is to have to worry about yet another element to choose, such as strings. Have you ever purchased a new set of strings and wondered why the action was drastically different compared to your last set of strings? The B-string was much lower or higher? Chances are it's the strings by the ball end are either tapered or not. In this issue, we'll help you choose the right bass strings. Standard or Full Wound...

TONE TALK | Echoes and Delays From the very first tape-based echo units to the most advanced delay pedals of today, have been changing the face of music. Vocalists to strings to percussions wouldn't dream of recording without first drenching their tones in reverb. Listen to U2's guitarist The Edge on "Where the Streets Have No Name," and you'll hear the stunning guitar delay that has influenced a whole generation of modern players. Finally, modern looping pedals have enabled performers like Ed Sheeran to elevate the traditional singer-songwriter experience to a new level by using a variety of instrument and...

  TONE TALK | The Psychedelic World of Modulation In the 1940s, the Leslie speaker was invented. It was a cabinet where a drum and horn rotated at different speeds in opposite directions, producing different sounds as the speakers rotated in and out of phase with each other. Attempts to reproduce these sounds resulted in the first modulation effects. Simply put, modulation effects work by disturbing your clean signals pitch or frequency to create sounds that mimic that of spaceship sounds to vibratos and choruses.   Phaser  A phaser pedal splits a signal and plays back the two paths at...

  TONE TALK AMPS | TUBES and SOLID STATE Looking for an amp can get overwhelming when you see all the different types of guitar amps out there. With so many different brands, shapes, sizes, and features, it can be difficult to decide what is the right guitar amp for you.In this issue we'll take a look at the different types of guitar amps out there and find which one might be right for you.There are a few main types of guitar amps: tube, solid state, and hybrid. Each type of amp uses a different type of technology to produce...