Remember: noise always builds up — If you listen closely, there is all sorts of rattling and clunking going on, and not all of that is the fumbling happening on the fretboard ;). Guitars with tremolos most often have springs and these springs are free to ring. …

Building the Swell Drive kit — So, once again I find myself building a re-creation of an obscure classic. And even more so than previous, such as Ghost Drive Build Building Stew Mac’s most popular kit of 2022medium.com and 2Kings Build Building StewMac’s 22nd most popular kit of 2022medium.com StewMac Swell Drive Pedal Kit Get your hands on this ultra-rare pedal We found a small stash of the out-of-production chips to resurrect the coveted…www.stewmac.com

A/B testing at the flick of a switch — Humbuckers versus single coils. There is a lot made of the debates concerning which is best type and why they sound that way; many marketing lunches will have been funded on the back of Alnico formulations. In fact, there are even products that will have a go at metamorphosing between these apparently immutable archtypes. Keyztone - EXchanger - ReKoil - Wahouwah Keyztone - Analog pedals leveraging your pickup & your wah to get more with what you're already have ! EXchanger …keyztone.com

If you have a little room, then you can have a lot of options — From living with the latest re-wiring The 30 year tune up: HSS with JEM style Yes, Yet Another Tweakmedium.com My personal conclusions are broadly: JEM style wiring which combines individual coils of humbuckers with single coils is a nice trick, but does not to my ears, yield a particularly drastic or impressive change in voicing, which is often what we want from a pickup selector. …

“It’s too old”: is it, really, though? — Issues The Dell 9360 is out of support, and I am seeing some rumblings in the event log about NVME and the like. Now, last time the battery was trashed, again the computer was behaving “oddly”. In that case the Dell warranty covered a full motherboard and battery replacement, but it…

Building StewMac’s 22nd most popular kit of 2022 — This is another one of those “much talked about — rarely owned” items. Stewmac claim to make a decent replica. StewMac Two Kings Boost Pedal Kit Can't wait 5 YEARS for an Analogman King of Tone? Now you can build a pedal that captures the tone of the amazing…www.stewmac.com Here’s a montage of the steps

Building Stew Mac’s most popular kit of 2022 — How it started StewMac Ghost Drive Pedal Kit More than a "klone"-it's the closest we've ever seen to the real thing! Few pedals reach mythical status like the Klon…www.stewmac.com How it’s going Now, here at Axes Xplained, we have little truck with a lot of mumbo jumbo that is passed around as folk-lore in guitar message boards. So, the internet started telling me the Klon Centaur was special and oddly hyper expensive, and StewMac make a…

TL;DR; the news is not great, but I do have a better rig, IMHO — So, here’s my effort: PSA: Power output lookup table Or, how much air gets shifted when you hook things upmedium.com And for the following brief, let’s see what ChatGPT can do: Explain how to check the power rating of a speaker cabinet is adequate to connect to a given amplifier To check if the power rating of a speaker cabinet is adequate to connect to a given amplifier, you will…

Or, how much air gets shifted when you hook things up — Figuring out whether you’re going to blow up your speaker cabinet seems to be a consideration that turns up more often than you might think. Here’s a run-through of the simple calculations to demystify the calculation. Power output calculation A quick recap on delivering power to speakers. There are 2 things you can…