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Here is another Tech Tip from Fender on how to keep your baby safe while flying around: A lot of guitars will be flying around—literally—this holiday season, and if you’re like most guitarists, you view the prospect of taking a guitar you care about on a commercial flight with something ranging from unnerving trepidation to outright dread. And well you...

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...

From the Guitarchive over at Fender comes a history lesson on the Telecaster Deluxe: Fender’s third and final late-’60s/early-’70s experiment with redesigned Telecaster models was the Telecaster Deluxe, developed in 1972 and introduced in 1973. Along with its predecessors, the Telecaster Thinline (1968) and the Telecaster Custom (1972), the Deluxe represented Fender’s first forays into the world of humbucking pickups...

Here at Proaudioland we have a great selection of DI boxes...and here is a good run down from Fender of what these little guys do. If you gig a lot or do a lot of studio recording, you should have a good DI box. It’s a good idea for electric guitarists; it’s an even better idea for bass guitarists and...

Our friends at Fender share some info on the importance of grounding your gear: Want to know what one of the most important safety features of your amplifier is? The plug. More specifically, the ground prong of a standard three-prong U.S. power plug. The three-prong plug of a Fender guitar or bass amplifier—of any amplifier—that connects it to ordinary household...