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...
Winspear Picks: Unique Materials, Incredible Tools WiredGuitarist January 22, 2018 Articles, Uncategorized Do you wonder what's so special about the picks we include with our String Drop orders? Well, wonder no longer! String Drop customers are eligible for free Winspear picks with all subscriptions and any...
What Is A No-Load Tone Pot? WiredGuitarist May 8, 2017 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized It’s becoming more common these days for guitars to be wired without a tone knob. Not only are there tonal benefits to this approach, but for guitarists who run their tone knob on 10 all the time,...
Recording Tips: Overdrives: Pedals vs Plugins WiredGuitarist April 18, 2017 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized It’s no secret that a key component of getting a tight, aggressive guitar tone is to use an overdrive pedal in front of your amp. For those of us on a budget, this is something we typically do in the...
Top 5 Budget-Friendly Boutique Pedals WiredGuitarist April 2, 2017 Articles, Reviews, Uncategorized All it takes is a single web search for “Klon Centaur” to show how hyped up and ridiculously expensive boutique pedals can be. Boutique pedals are sought after for a reason - their attention to detail,...
Seymour Duncan Invader Review WiredGuitarist March 10, 2017 Articles, Reviews, Uncategorized We've looked at some pretty brutal pickups in the past, such as the Black Winter, but today we take a look at something for only the most extreme players… the Seymour Duncan Invader pickup...
Top 4 Overdrive Pedals for Metal WiredGuitarist January 2, 2017 Articles, Uncategorized Overdrive pedals have been famously used across all genres of guitar-based music, from blues to country to metal. With their popularity, there are a lot of options on the market. Sometimes it can be...
Top 5 Free Guitar Plugins WiredGuitarist December 30, 2016 Articles, Recording Tips, Uncategorized Incredible. Guitar. Tone. Now let me guess, the first thing that came to mind was probably a $5,000 guitar, and $3,000 amp, about $7,000 in microphones and another $20,000 in preamps and analog gear, right?...
How to Set Humbucker Height WiredGuitarist November 23, 2016 Articles, Tutorials, Uncategorized Let's face it.. Most of us are gear nerds. There's nothing like a NGD (New Gear Day). I have friends and colleagues who are always upgrading their pickups, buying new pedals, buying new guitars, or even...
Recording Tips: 7 Steps for Dialing in Heavy Guitars WiredGuitarist November 20, 2016 Articles, Recording Tips, Tutorials, Uncategorized It doesn’t get better than a thick, heavy, aggressive, articulate, and bone-crushing guitar tone! But how do we get there? Let us show you. Treble, middle, bass. That’s it, right? I mean, when...