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  1. TECH TIPS: Pickups, Bucking the Hum

    What is a humbucking pickup? What does it do? What does it sound like? And why is it called that? A humbucking pickup is a type of pickup that is especially good at doing two things. First, they’re designed to solve the problem of suppressing external noise; built with two coils in a way that makes them cancel the annoying...
  2. TECH TIPS: Adjusting Your Pickups - Fine Tune Your Sound

    Here is a TECH TIP for our friends at Seymour Duncan showing you how to dial in your pickups: By Frank Falbo, Seymour Duncan VP of Products Most guitars have screws around the pickups for adjusting pickup height. Most guitar factories adjust the pickups to a median height, but why not find the best height for your tone? While you...
  3. TECH TIPS: The Stratocaster Pickup Selector Switch

    Here is a great TECH TIP from Fender explaining the workings of a Stratocaster pickup selector switch. The pickup switch is the key to the Stratocaster’s time-honored tonal versatility, because it controls which pickups or which combinations of pickups are on at any given time. Since the Stratocaster is Fender’s sole three-pickup guitar, its pickup switch has an important job...
  4. Free Pixies Live EP

    To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their landmark album Doolittle, the Pixies are offering a live EP.
  5. TECH TIPS: The Humbucker Pickup Explained

    Another tip from our friends at FENDER. Here is the humbucker pickup explained: What is a humbucking pickup? What does it do? What does it sound like? And why is it called that? A humbucking pickup is a type of pickup that is especially good at doing two things. First, they’re designed to solve the problem of suppressing external noise...

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