It’s like a game of chess. Every move you make affects the outcome, but if you don’t know how to play it right, your pieces may end up in checkmate. Similarly, when using an overdrive pedal with a tube amp, every little tweak can drastically alter the sound – and even save its life!
In this next part of our guitar volume and tone controls posts, we move on from talking about pickups and voltage to discussing potentiometers and capacitors, or pots and caps…
We are going to post a couple articles wherein we discuss how guitar volume and tone controls work. The two controls overlap in terms of principles and electronic components, but there are some important differences. We will start by discussing volume and tone controls as implemented in guitar circuits…
Not every guitar rig is the same, and it may not always be obvious what upgrade you should focus on first to improve your sound. Check out Fuzz Audio’s list of most important upgrades you should to make for better electric guitar tone!
An electric guitar body with its strings and pickups is only half an instrument. All electric guitar players know that the amplifier is the other half.