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Our friends over at Fender answered a few questions recently about staggered pole pieces for us. Heres what they had to say. Fender's customer service department gets asked all the time why some Stratocaster® guitar pickups have staggered polepieces. The answer: because it balances the output across the strings. OK, well, what does that mean? It simply means that staggered...

You probably know that guitar cords and speaker cables aren't interchangeable, but you probably don't know why. While it usually suffices for most to leave it at "Hey, don't do that," a little understanding never hurts, so allow us to explain. Guitar cables and speaker cables are two different kinds of cable designed for two very different purposes. Using one...

Right next to the on/off switch on many tube amps is a second switch labeled “standby”. It’s that switch that silences your guitar amp without actually turning it off, which comes in handy when break time rolls around at rehearsal or at a gig. What you might not know, however, is that while that is a conveniently useful function of...

We talk of tubes as being the “amplifiers within our amplifiers”, but the fact is, while tubes do complete the vital mission of amplifying our guitar signals, they do a whole slew of other things at the same time that add up to so much more than that. Let’s take a quick look at why we really love tubes so...

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