Don’t replace those capacitors

Seriously, don’t replace the tone capacitors in your guitars with more expansive ones. If you need some, don’t even buy them at a music store. If you spent more then a few cents, you spent too much. Period. Okay, maybe I should elaborate: Music stores around the world will sell really expansive capacitors, build like they did it seventy or...

leander / 2021-01-07 / electronics / 0 Comments

About those Fishmans

Over the last two years, I equipped two of my guitars with Fishman Fluence pickups, and while they do a great job of sounding how a guitar pickup should sound, I primarily chose to switch to them based on the design principle. I’d consider them the only real innovation in pickup technology since EMG released the first active pickups. Once...

leander / 2020-12-22 / electronics, pickups / 0 Comments