How To Set Up a Click and Backing Tracks For Your Show WiredGuitarist June 12, 2019 Articles, Tutorials If there’s one hallmark of local metal or prog bands across the country, it’s running a click track. As cliche as it is to hear “yo, can you turn our bass drops up?” at a show, there’s certainly...
Effect Spotlight: Treble Boosters WiredGuitarist May 30, 2019 Articles, Pedal Reviews, Tutorials, Uncategorized Treble boosters skyrocketed to fame in the 1960’s through their use by popular guitarists like Brian May and Tony Iommi. While modern guitarists often have the attitude that a treble booster is something...
Amplifier Classes Explained: What Does It Mean? WiredGuitarist May 23, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized If you’ve shopped for a guitar amp, headphone amp, or power amp you may have seen the specs list include an amplifier’s class. Class A, Class B, but what do these terms really mean? Do they impact...
3 Tips To Improve Your Improvisation WiredGuitarist May 14, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Jazz. That’s what comes to mind when we think of improvisation. We think of two old guys with hollow body guitars playing some “diddly-doo-boop” kind of lines with a clean tone, and we all know how...
Pedalboard 105: Customizing Your Sound with Guitar Pedal Mods WiredGuitarist May 9, 2019 Articles, Pedal Reviews, Tutorials, Uncategorized Ever since technology was developed there was a modding community not far behind it. The ability to personalize and customize a piece of tech to your individual tastes and needs helps you get more bang for...
Why Do Hollow Body Guitars Feedback More? WiredGuitarist May 1, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Guitar feedback is typically an unwanted, uncontrollable mess of high pitched screaming and chaos. It can be great to create cool effects if you’re able to control it, but most of the time we’re trying to...
4 Ways To Get Infinite Sustain WiredGuitarist April 11, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Sustain is an important part of a quality guitar tone. We tend to use it as a mark of quality: the longer a note last the nicer the guitar/amp etc. must be. Especially with guitars, it’s the mark of a...
Record An Entire Album Without Touching An Instrument WiredGuitarist March 22, 2019 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized This article is just for fun, and to show how incredible technology has gotten. Don’t take it too seriously. ;) Not sure how to play guitar, but want to write your technical death metal magnum opus? Want...
4 Cheap Ways To Customize Your Gear WiredGuitarist March 20, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized We place immense value in our instruments. We care for them, they are our pride and joy, they are what allow us to make music. But the music we created is unique, because we all have our own perspective and...
Metal and Music Theory: What People Don’t Understand WiredGuitarist January 11, 2019 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Music theory is a dirty word to anyone outside the circles of jazz and classical. But why? Is it too hard? Is it not relevant to the genre? There’s no simple answer to these things, but we’re going...