Except, when you installed it and start playing those classic licks, you hear none of those! You may hear deep bottom end and maybe a rich mid almost like muffled tone. The bell-like chime is nowhere to be heard. You wonder what is going on and keep tweaking the EQ on your amp and trying to get that dream tone you were looking for from those new pickups! You max out the treble and still couldn't hear the glassy tone! What went wrong?
In between your guitar and the amp, there is just one thing there. You wonder if that's the problem? Bingo! It is your cable! Bad cables suck your tone and usually lose your high frequency. You lose clarity!
So many players never think about their cables. In fact, there are players out there who argue that cables are all the same. Everything is just marketing lies. This cannot be more wrong!
Mixdown Magazine gets to the point of why a good cable is more than just better audio quality. Click HERE to find out more why we all should just spend that little more and use some better cables!
Cheers!
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These new Ultramag strings are incredible! I use them personally for a few reasons.
They last a long time - I don’t play professionally but I do have a few guitars in my collection. I rotate them and so sometimes the strings would be left on the guitars for months. The great thing about these strings is, they sound fresh even after a few months. They don’t sound dull after long while.
They are corrosion resistant - I have sweaty palm and it doesn’t matter how I wipe the strings after I played them, with normal strings, they’ll go rusty real fast. With the Ultramag strings, I don’t have this problem.
Feel normal - with all these higher magnetic content, corrosion resistant properties and special TYPE 52 alloy, these strings feel like your normal set of pure nickel strings. There isn’t any coating or anything to make them too slippery or smooth.
It appears that “fuzz” was an unintentional discovery, while tracking Marty Robbins’ “Don’t Worry”, a broken channel strip was used to record the bass solo and stayed on the record. Other musicians wanted this sound for themselves and Glen Snoddy, who was engineering the session, would build a circuit to capture that sound - the Maestro Fuzz-Tone, the first fuzz pedal. (Pedal Crush, page 96)
It didn’t take long for these “fuzzy” tone to become popular and it is the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction, that really brought the fuzz tone to another level.
Here at Mocha Earth Music, if you can’t already tell, we love fuzz pedals. We have a fairly decent range of fuzz pedals, which you can check out here. With this many options to choose from, it can be daunting and don’t know where to start or which is best for you. The good thing is, most of the fuzz pedals we stock were usually derived from some iconic fuzz pedal circuitries. Thanks to our friend, Beginner Guitar HQ over in New Zealand, has written up a great article on how to choose a fuzz pedal and listed out all the famous fuzz circuits/pedals and their characteristic. It should helps you a fair bit on what sort of fuzz pedal is best for your application. Check it out here.
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