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Why Does a Fender Esquire Have a Pickup Selector Switch?

Why Does a Fender Esquire Have a Pickup Selector Switch?
The wonderfully simple single-pickup Fender Esquire, in its early 1950s format with butterscotch blonde finish. Why did this one-pickup gui...

What is Guitar Pickup Calibration & Do We Really Need It?

What is Guitar Pickup Calibration & Do We Really Need It?
Problem... On an electric guitar with multiple pickups, the vibration of the strings is greater above the neck pickup than it is above th...

While My Fanbase Gently Weeps: The Music Business Sell-Out

While My Fanbase Gently Weeps: The Music Business Sell-Out
In the finest of music biz stories, there comes a point at which the hand of commerce takes over, the essence of the initial excitement go...

Why Semi-Acoustic Guitars Rock

Why Semi-Acoustic Guitars Rock
Is there really something special about them? Does it actually matter, when you have two pickups directly sensing the vibration of metal ...

Direct Injection for Electric Guitars - The Formative Years

Direct Injection for Electric Guitars - The Formative Years
Direct injection (very frequently abbreviated to DI) is the apparently simple practice of sending the output of an electric or electronic...

Look Up Old Calendars with Datesearch

Look Up Old Calendars with Datesearch
Queen Victoria became UK monarch on 20th June 1837. But what day of the week was that? … Do you know what day of the week it was when you we...
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1980s Guitarist Magazines Malmsteen? Sickened by Vinnie Moore? Surely not?... Let's re-live the full, gossip-filled story of the UK guitar press, circa 1980s and 1990s. Nostalgia galore in The Rise of the British Guitar Magazine... Read article...

The Vintage Reissue Story

Vintage Reissue A trip back through time to discover how the vintage guitar market started, and when the vintage reissue concept was born... Read article...

Guitar Pickup Calibration

Guitar pickups What is pickup calibration, and do we really need it? ... Read article...

The Birth of the Relic

Fender Stratocaster Relic in Sea Foam Green The back-story behind Fender's Relic concept, from underground to mainstream... Read article...

Hidden Secret of the Fender Esquire

Fender Esquire in Butterscotch Blonde An article begins with the question of why a single-pickup Fender Esquire has a pickup selector., and ends with a profound secret from Fender history.. Read article...

Get Great Tone With Poor Pickups

Guitar strings Some long lost secrets from electric guitar string history, that explain why '70s guitarist got great tone with poor pickups... Read article...

Confusing History of Olympic White

Olympic White guitars Was Olympic White actually white, or cream? And what was "Vintage White"?... Here's an end to the confusion... Read article...

The Classic '80s Yamaha DX Synths

Vintage Reissue They put session musicians out of business, from bassists to harmonica players. Here's the story of the synths that changed the way music was made.. Read article...

Telecasters of the Late 1960s

Paisley Telecaster Fender didn't anticipate the 'Hendrix Effect', and opted to make the late 1960s all about the Telecaster. Here's how they pumped their innovation budget into the Tele, only to discover the world wanted Strats after all... Read article...

Free Tonewheel Organ VSTi

The Seductress tonewheel organ VSTi Direct download for this classic tonewheel organ simulator with built-in dual-spin rotor and twin-manual drawbar control - all splittable across a single input keyboard... Download page...

Stratocasters in the 1970s

1970s Stratocaster Firemist Gold Were 1970s Fender Strats good, bad or ugly? Here's an article that separates the truths from the myths... Read article...