50 steps to better electric guitar tone

WellyBlues · Post by **WellyBlues** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:21 pm

From musicradar: some interesting items

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ ... e-528489/1

some might find it useful

werdna · Post by **werdna** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:25 pm

50 seem like quite a lot of steps.

alanp · Post by **alanp** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:29 pm

Make sure your guitar is in tune... that's a bit like saying, when you wake up in the morning, it's a good idea to not expose contents of your arteries to air in copious volume through damaging said vessels.

Cdog · Post by **Cdog** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:30 pm

alanp wrote:Make sure your guitar is in tune... that's a bit like saying, when you wake up in the morning, it's a good idea to not expose contents of your arteries to air in copious volume through damaging said vessels.

willow13 · Post by **willow13** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:39 pm

billy gibsons uses .0007

...shit they would break just looking at them for most

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:39 pm

Going by a lot of YouTube vids there's a fair few people who should listen to that tuning up point!

werdna · Post by **werdna** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:42 pm

But they are interesting.

Cdog · Post by **Cdog** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:04 pm

I liked the coil split mod idea by using series resitors with the coils... might try that, I need to tidy up my strat's guts anyway

Edwards · Post by **Edwards** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:45 pm

Agreed about winding the tailpiece down on LP's.

But raising the action wouldn't be my thing at all.

I think intonation is very important. If your notes/chords are not ringing out at the right pitch, it's gonna sound bad.

Point #51 should be 'buy an Edwards'. Agreed, JB ?

willow13 · Post by **willow13** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 4:05 pm

I find my guitars with higher action sound so much better than the low ones...also intonation is something I need to do more. I think only 2 of my 15 guitars are intonated properly

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:06 pm

Edward wrote: Point #1 should be 'buy an Edwards'. Agreed, JB ?

*fixed*

aliasceiza · Post by **aliasceiza** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:20 pm

Can't remember what number tip, but this cracked me up!

Tone nerds say non true-bypass pedals sound ‘bad’. Everybody else adjusts their other settings accordingly.

Post by **Capt. Black** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:17 pm

I liked that article. Went in skeptical. Came out impressed. It's like the distillation of the top50 most repeated advice threads from NZG since it went live.

Play loud!

sizzlingbadger · Post by **sizzlingbadger** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:58 am

The height of the tail piece on a Les Paul should be adjusted for each individual instrument, cranking it down against the body can ruin sustain and tone and also cause damage to the bridge on some guitars.

I find the best height to start with is one where the break angle of the strings over the bridge matches the angle over the nut, that is usually where the sweet spot seems to be. I also avoid letting the strings touch the back of the bridge.

On some models it just so happens this all comes together with the tail stop cranked down but mainly the older guitars and some reissues.

Post by Bg » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:38 am

Nah, crank it down and wrap the strings over. Play loud. It's not rocket science.

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