Tech Tips & Tutorials

tech tip and tutorials for all musicians. Including studio engineers, guitar players and singers.

  1. TECH TIPS: Stolen Gear

    - Here is some great info from Fender on protecting your precious gear. If Tech Talk had to guess, it’d say that well more than a million musical instruments are stolen each year. That includes loads of guitars, basses and amps, very few of which are ever recovered. In fact, it seems like almost every avid guitarist and bassist—novice, semi-pro...
  2. TECH TIPS: Singing While You're Playing

    There are a bunch of good reasons why you should try to learn to sing while you play: It's impressive. It really is. It's good for you musically. Singing while you're playing is one of the best ways to learn when to do what on your instrument. Wanna stop overplaying? Try singing lead vocals or backup parts and see what...
  3. TECH TIPS: Guitar Fret Sizes Explained

    In this edition of TECH TIPS we will discuss the difference in fret sizes and terminology. While guitar shopping, either outside in the real world or inside in the virtual one, you will often run across mention of the size of a guitar's frets––“jumbo frets” or “medium jumbo frets” and so forth. What's the difference? Why have different fret sizes...
  4. TECH TIPS: Value Of The Jam Session

    Warwick endorse Lex Sadler was nice enough to drop some knowledge on the importance of the jam session, its impact on your playing and we cant agree more. Jamming is a big part of just about every player’s growth — it’s almost like training and a good part of a practice regime. Normally this happens behind closed doors in the...
  5. TECH TIPS: What’s the difference between gain and volume?

    In this edition of TECH TIPS we will discuss the difference between Gain and Volume. Guitarists and bassists use gain all the time, yet many would be hard-pressed to tell you clearly and correctly what gain is, exactly, and how it relates to volume. Granted, you needn’t be able to define “gain” in order to use it—you just know you...

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