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Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2.1

Posted on July 11, 2016 by admin

It seems worth repeating the message another way, showing how to get the most out of humbucking pairs: For a pickup with 4 matched single-coil pickups, you can have 8 different personalities of 12 timbres each.  The personalities, timbres available … Continue reading →

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@mailcatch.com banned from new registrations

Posted on July 11, 2016 by admin

Cleantalk.org has tagged half the new users from mailcatch.com as spammers.  To protect the rest of the users and this site, no more will be accepted from that domain.  The remaining mailcatch.com users will be checked periodically to see if … Continue reading →

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When you have something to say – please let me hear it

Posted on July 10, 2016 by admin

So I’m an old guy.  I remember music from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s.  What do I miss? Clarity. If I go to live music today, it’s often so loud, it’s painful.  Not only that, it’s so loud I can’t … Continue reading →

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New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2

Posted on July 10, 2016 by admin

Click Here. Shows that for K number of matched single-coil pickups, the total number of possible in-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2, and the total number of possible contra-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2.  The ultimate number of unique humbucking pairs for K is … Continue reading →

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New page: How Many Useful Outputs From Five Coils?

Posted on July 7, 2016 by admin

How Many Useful Pickup Combinations Can You Get From 5 Coils? © 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC How many possible connections, musically meaningful or not, can you get from 5 electromagnetic coil pickups?  More specifically from two humbuckers, … Continue reading →

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Guitars With Too Many Choices to Succeed

Posted on July 6, 2016 by admin

(c) 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC Let me put this in Bold:  With humbucking pairs, you can set a guitar up to shift from warm to bright without ever knowing which pairs are used. Other  guitars have come … Continue reading →

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For news on changes to this site, follow @TSGAxe on twitter

Posted on July 6, 2016 by admin
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Tutorials Tab Reorganized

Posted on July 5, 2016 by admin

The Tutorials tab has been reorganized to group all pages on Humbucking Pairs together.

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History Tab Added

Posted on July 5, 2016 by admin

For any who might wonder where this all came from, and how long it took, TSG now has a History tab.  The first article, Shooting the Bullet, describes a time in about April to May 2005, when a new Fender … Continue reading →

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New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 1

Posted on July 4, 2016 by admin

A new page discussing how the tonal quality and range of a guitar can be changed by plug-in pickups and a plug-in board connecting the pickups to a tone switch.

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