The Top Five Reasons Your Guitar Tone Sucks
Guitar Nerds are back with another top-five countdown.
This time, Mark and the guys are looking at “The Top Five Reasons Your Guitar Tone Sucks and How You Can Make It Better.”
From guitar cables to strings to pickups to tone suck…there are plenty of areas in your setup where you can make small but noticeable improvements in your guitar’s tone.
Check out these five from Guitar Nerds and see if any apply to you.
As always, visit the Guitar Nerds YouTube channel for more of their informative videos. And if you feel they missed anything, drop them a note and let them know.
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Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.
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