How-To

Video: Art Thompson's Tube Tasting Seminar

Sep 13 2009 3:40PM
GP's senior editor and gear guru talked tubes and tone at this GUITAR PLAYER LIVE event. More...

Greg Koch on Clinics

Jul 30 2009 12:05PM
The gristlicious Greg Koch is not only a hilarious guy and a monster player (check out his latest release, Nation Sack, with Malford Milligan for proof), but, as the top clinician for Fender and Hal Leonard, he’s also the most More...

Shock Therapy

Jun 1 2010 1:00AM
I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT amplifiers, but I know there are potentially lethal voltages inside. I would rather not have a shocking experience, so what is the proper way to drain an amplifier of stored electricity so More...

Electronic Guitar Five Do-It-Yourself Emulations

Apr 1 2010 1:00AM
YOU DON’T ALWAYS NEED FANCY SIGNAL processors to emulate some common guitar sounds and effects. Sometimes, off the shelf programs or effects can do the job. For example... More...

Bruce Egnater on Effects Loops

Dec 16 2009 11:00AM
EFFECTS LOOPS OFTEN GET a bad rap for “sucking tone.” In reality, most guitar and bass amp effects loops are pretty good. More...

Will Dailey and T Bone Burnett on CODE Technology

Oct 1 2009 6:20PM
RATHER THAN RELEASE ONE ALBUM WITH 12 songs every year, Will Dailey has taken to putting out EPs as often as he feels like. His latest, Torrent Vol. 1 and Torrent Vol. 2, not only feature special guests Roger McGuinn and More...

Amp Sims

Sep 28 2009 2:20PM
HERE’S AN EASY WAY TO IMPROVE AN AMPsimulator’s tone dramatically: increase the samplerate at which it operates. Now, I’m not somegolden ears guy who insists that recordingsdone at 96kHz sound sooo much better thana CD’s standard More...

Lowering Latency

Sep 1 2009 7:40AM
WHEN YOU PLUG YOUR GUITAR INTO A COMPUTER and process the sound with amp simulators, you’ll experience latency—the time between hitting a note and hearing it. Actually, you experience it with amps, too. Sound travels at about one More...

Lacquer Ware

Sep 1 2009 7:40AM
ON THE POWER TRANSFORMER OF MYFENDER TWEED AMP, WAX IS dripping on one side. Is this normal, or has the transformer overheated and melted wax from the laminates? I’ve included a photo of the transformer. —Lee Yue Chen More...

The Jangle-izer

Aug 1 2009 4:30AM
IS THERE A WAY TO GET MORE JANGLE FROM THE NORMAL channel of my Fender Pro Reverb amp? I have a 12-string Rickenbacker and would like to get that clean, jangly Vox tone, but without altering the reverb channel of my amp. More...

10 Essential Amp Simulator Tips

Aug 1 2009 3:15AM
EVEN AFTER MANY YEARS OF DIGITAL SOUND processing, guitar-amp simulators can still be controversial. Some players will contend they don’t sound or feel like real tube amps, and others will claim amp sims deliver sounds you can’t More...