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In this installment of TECH TIPS, we want to expend a few words on the concept of “home tone” vs. “gig tone”. This is something that experienced performing musicians know intuitively, but which often slaps newcomers to the live venue right in the face when they come up against it for the first time. To preface: there’s so much talk...

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...